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Back to the Future

edited by Sheila Kim -- Interior Design, 2/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Christopher Dresser was an industrial designer ahead of his time—and New York's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, is about to catch up. To commemorate the centennial of his death, the museum is presenting "Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser," the first full-scale retrospective on the British design pioneer.

The exhibit covers 300 remarkably modern objects and furnishings manufactured by more than 70 companies. Dresser's silver-plated teapots for James Dixon & Sons, for example, were designed in the late 1870's, but they could almost be Bauhaus work of 50 years later. March 5–July 29; 212-849-8400; si.edu/ndm.

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