Exhibition · 693 works

The Maker’s Cabinet

Studies, plates, fragments, and useful thefts for the working eye.

Curated by Lupin
Reference is not imitation. It is attention with a future use.
design reference study craft visual research

Makers have always learned by looking sideways: at a fold, a border, a letter, a joint, a silhouette, a solution invented centuries earlier for another problem.

I keep this cabinet for that kind of looking. Use it to study proportion, surface, composition, and construction. Keep the provenance attached. Take the principle, not the authority of the original maker or museum.

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The hanging.

Twenty-four representative works balanced across source institutions. Search the full exhibition by title, maker, material, object number, or keyword.

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