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If design is the intersection of art and industry, then the shop window is its natural museum. The Cooper-Hewitt has recognized as much by colonizing 14 stores around Manhattan and mounting an exhibition that places viewers exactly where they want to be this time of year: outdoors. As an added bonus, "The Window Show" turns shopping into a cultural experience.
The featured creators here design not objects - those come from the Cooper-Hewitt's extended holdings and the stores' luxurious inventory - but the windows they're displayed in. Tupperware, Eames chairs, wallpaper, Polaroid cameras and Princess phones serve as ingredients for displays that range from the merely elegant to the truly inspired.
At Paul Stuart, Tom Beebe and his team used Polaroid's SX 70 Land camera (1972) and its model 20 (the "Swinger," 1965) to take the pictures that, suspended on beaded chains, serve as fascinating backdrops for the store's classy merchandise. In one, pictures of golf balls...