Article: It's Not a Cup, It's a Masterpiece.(home design, various artists)(Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York)(DESIGN)(PERISCOPE)(Brief Article)

Put tupperware in the kitchen and it's a box for leftover casserole. Put it in New York's Museum of Modern Art and it becomes an example of midcentury haute design. Don't cringe--MoMA isn't confusing flexible dinnerware with a classic Charles Eames chair (example: top left). But both are examples of home design in the post-World War II era, a period admired for initiating a marriage of form and function. It's also the hot topic at several museums this summer. ...

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