Liz Lowe
Student/GOOD intern
- May 1, 2009 • 7:48 pm PDT
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Felt is back and has gone way beyond elementary school name-tags with "Fashioning Felt," an illuminating exhibition of around 70 items - mostly furnishings and garments - at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Felt's purely artistic possibilities are also being explored in scattered shows at New York galleries. The above photo is from "Bold as Love," a show of the work of the young artist Adam Parker Smith that can be seen 24/7 at Broadway Windows.
Although I can't imagine felt feels divine on the skin, some artists have created high fashion from felt. Below is a set of dresses by Andrea Zittel. The smooth surfaces and glazes of ceramics, felt's wet-dry process and variety of colors encourage the human yen for decoration.
"Fashioning Felt" continues through Sept. 7 at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, 2 East 91st Street;(212) 849-8400, cooperhewitt.org.
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