ICFF NYC 2018

Emily Orr
Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary American Design
Cooper Hewitt


Emily Orr is a design historian with particular interests in material culture, industrial design, consumer culture, and retail history. She is the Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary American Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum where she recently co-curated and contributed to the catalog for the exhibition Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. She holds a PhD in the History of Design from the Royal College of Art/Victoria & Albert Museum where her thesis explored display design in department stores at the turn of the twentieth century, now the focus for a forthcoming monograph.

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