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Ted Muehling Selects: Lobmeyr Glass from the Permanent Collection

New York-based designer Ted Muehling will serve as the tenth guest curator of the ‘Selects’ exhibition series in the Nancy and Edwin Marks Gallery, devoted to showing the museum’s permanent collection. Muehling will curate an exhibition of works drawn from the museum’s recent acquisition of 160 rare examples of glass from J. & L. Lobmeyr of Vienna, Austria. The collection dates from 1835 to the present day, spanning virtually the entire history of the firm since its founding. This addition to the permanent collection provides a unique opportunity to tell the history of glassmaking in central Europe during a 175-year period, with an in-depth look at one of the most influential Austrian firms.

Ted Muehling Selects: Lobmeyr Glass from the Permanent Collection” is made possible in part by support from the Austrian Trade Commission, WIEN PRODUCTS, Arthur Liu, the Austrian Cultural Forum NYC, Dale and Doug Anderson, Prairie Pictures Inc, and anonymous donors.

Text about Ludwig Lobmeyr and the Exhibition by Sarah Coffin.

On view April 23 to January 2, 2011

VENUE
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street
New York, NY 10128