The Shop by Cooper-Hewitt

For the individual with a sweet tooth for cutting-edge design, the holiday season just got a little bit sweeter. In an unprecedented move, New York’s own Copper-Hewitt National Design Museum (the United States’ only museum exclusively dedicated to historical and contemporary design), has decided to make things much easier for the downtown Manhattan masses by setting up a one-stop destination for the design-hungry shopper.

Simply named The Shop, this venture on 33 Bond Street is erected specifically for this month only. The experts behind the Cooper-Hewitt have hand-picked 33 rare and matchless design items that you would be lucky to find elsewhere in the United States.

With only 33 items on show in the store though, the range online is much more vast and the items a combination of the playful with the practical, the sleek with the eccentric, the classic with the contemporary.

It is both a historic recollection of famous product designs that have influenced people around the world and newer items that are rather more fun-loving.

Classics like the City Hall Clock, originally designed in 1955, and the traveler’s essential AB1 Quartz Travel Clock by Braun are just a couple of products available that have been designed from a more functional angle.

While some of the products like the Balloon Speaker, which, like its name suggests, is a bulbous sphere on a thin rod that functions as a portable speaker for any mp3 player, is designed with a sense of humor.

To learn more visit their site on www.cooperhewittshop.org.

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by Henry Guyer
Gloobbi Design

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