"In 2011 [the author/artist] was invited by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City to curate an exhibit based on their collection. Like a shopper in some great, mad department store that housed many centuries' worth of objects, [she] browsed and inspected their archives for a year or so. The pieces that [she] chose were based on one thing only-- a gasp of delight."--Introduction.
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