Page often worked as a manager for absentee owners, such as the British geological expert, Dr. David T. Ansted, and the New York City mayor, Abram S. Hewitt of the Cooper-Hewitt organization and other New York and Boston financiers, or as the “ front man ” in projects involving a silent partner, such as Henry H. Rogers.

He found little market in the United States for his skills as a professional forester, and worked various odd jobs until 1878 when he got a job in Pennsylvania managing the 15, 000 acres of woods which were used to obtain charcoal for the foundry of Cooper-Hewitt and Co. Fernow's observation and works like Report on the Forests of North America ( Charles S. Sargent, 1884 ) showed him the need for proper forest management in the U. S., and he lectured on the subject.

* Design Mind Award, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards ; 2007 ( with Denise Scott Brown )

The architecture of the neighborhood includes apartment buildings along Park Avenue and Fifth Avenue, brownstones ( with stoops ) and townhouses on the side streets, condos, co-ops and a handful of mansions, some of which are now used by organizations including the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, The Jewish Museum, the National Academy of Design and the Dalton School.

In conjunction with the National Endowment of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities the Cooper-Hewitt showcased Scandinavian design.

A suite of educational programs is offered every year in conjunction with the Awards by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's Education Department.

In the words of his biographer, Pei has won " every award of any consequence in his art ", including the Arnold Brunner Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters ( 1963 ), the Gold Medal for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters ( 1979 ), the AIA Gold Medal ( 1979 ), the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture from the Japan Art Association ( 1989 ), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and the 2010 Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

A protest was held from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

He set out to reinvigorate and expand the Smithsonian, building new museums, including the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, now the Anacostia Community Museum, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Renwick Gallery, National Air and Space Museum, National Museum of African Art, Enid A. Haupt Garden, Quadrangle Complex and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum: The Andrew and Louise Carnegie Mansion: Art Spaces.

Some recent BGC graduates are holding positions as curators at the Textile Museum in Washington, DC ; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta ; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ; the New-York Historical Society ; the National Gallery of Art ; the Metropolitan Museum of Art ; the Corcoran Gallery of Art ; the Art Institute of Chicago ; the Detroit Institute of Arts ; Yale University Art Gallery ; the Museum of Modern Art ; the Museum of Arts and Design ; the Allentown Art Museum ; and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.

Zeisel ’ s works are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum ; Brooklyn Museum ; New-York Historical Society, Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum and The Museum of Modern Art, New York ; the British Museum ; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London ; Bröhan Museum, Germany ; as well as Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta and Milwaukee museums and others in the US and abroad.

Her art and design work has been shown in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in NYC, V & A in London, Millennium Museum in Beijing, SIGGRAPH, ISEA, Art Directors Club in NYC, Australian Museum in Sydney, NTT ICC in Tokyo and Ars Electronica Center in Linz among others.

In 2012, the Cooper-Hewitt created an additional space in Harlem as an education facility.

In 2012, the Cooper-Hewitt started work on a design center in Harlem to " Encourage students and their teachers to think like designers, approach the world in a visual way and better understand the role design plays in their everyday lives.

William Grant " Bill " Moggridge, RDI ( June 25, 1943 – September 8, 2012 ) was a British designer, author and educator who cofounded the design company IDEO and was director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York.

" In 1993, the Cooper-Hewitt created the exhibition " The Power of Maps ," which was its first exhibition to be shown on the National Mall at the S. Dillon Ripley Gallery.

Gas rectifiers which predated vacuum tubes, such as the argon-filled General Electric " Tungar bulb " and the Cooper-Hewitt mercury pool rectifier, also provided an influence.

Cyberflora was debuted in April 2003 at the National Design Triennial which was hosted by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City, New York.

In May 2008, the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum announced Architecture for Humanity had won the Design Patron Award highlighting the firm's commitment to improving communities by providing pro bono, sustainable design services.

The Cooper-Hewitt collections consist of decorative and design objects.

Exhibitions at the Cooper-Hewitt explore the history and culture of design and decorative arts.

May 26, 2011 Matthew Carter received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in part for design of Georgia font.

The Cooper-Hewitt is the only museum in the US devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design.

In 2004 he received a National Design Award for environmental design from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

Pei has won a wide variety of prizes and awards in the field of architecture, including the AIA Gold Medal in 1979, the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture in 1989, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in 2003.

In 2004, John Pickles, Early N. Phillips Distinguished professor at the University of North Carolina summed up Wood ’ s contributions this way: “ For over twenty-five years, Denis Wood has been provoking us to think differently and critically about maps and map use .” The book was first issued in 1992 as a catalogue accompanying a major exhibition called The Power of Maps at the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design in New York.

He has also received nominations from such highly regarded institutions as the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt.

The National Design Awards, founded in 2000, are funded and awarded by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.

* Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, National Design Award – Product Design, November 2000

In 2001, Eisenman won the National Design Award for Architecture from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

Later in November, the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum honored Lapidus as an American Original for his lifetime of work.

See Cyberflora that was exhibited at the 2003 National Design Triennial at the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

Rosenthal's Teapot Drop designed by Colani in Cooper-Hewitt Museum in N. Y.

Today the mansion houses the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution.

The Cooper-Hewitt Museum was founded in 1896.

July 1, 1968, it was officially transferred to the Smithsonian and the museum was renamed the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design.

The following year, 1969, it was renamed as the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design.

The Cooper-Hewitt is located in the Andrew Carnegie Mansion.

To accommodate the museum renovations, the Cooper-Hewitt closed to the public in 2011 and will re-open in 2013.

In 1983, The Cooper-Hewitt was the first museum in the United States to exhibit the Amsterdam School.