Orr, Emily M.
Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary American Design
Orr, Emily M.
Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary American Design
American design 1850 to the present; fashion and textile history 1850 to the present; consumer culture
Background And Education
Awards And Honors
- Marcia Brady Tucker Senior Fellow, conferred by Yale University, 2009 - 2012
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Condell, Caitlin and Orr, Emily M. 2022. "Underground Modernist." The Magazine Antiques, Jan 1, 2022, CLXXXIX, (1), 226. Brooklyn. 2022
- Orr, Emily M. 2017. "The Craftsman Building: Gustav Stickley's "Home" in New York City." The Journal of Modern Craft, 10, (3) 273–291. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496772.2017.1394526. 2017
- Orr, Emily. 2015. "Designing “A Show-Place for Visitors”: Merchandise Display in the Early American Department Store." Ephemera Journal, 17, (2) 9–14. 2015
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Blog Posting
- Condell, Caitlin and Orr, Emily M. 2021. "A Commercial Artist With Ideals." Cooper Hewitt Blog New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Nov 8, 2021. https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2021/11/08/a-commercial-artist-with-ideals/. 2021
- Orr, Emily. 2017. "Watch This Window." Cooper Hewitt Short Stories New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Oct 4, 2017. https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2017/10/04/cooper-hewitt-short-stories-watch-this-window/. 2017
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Book
- Orr, Emily M. 2019. Designing the Department Store: Display and Retail at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. London, England: Bloomsbury Visual Arts. 2019
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Chapter
- Orr, Emily M. 2020. "Equipping and Exhibiting the Modern Interior." In E. McKnight Kauffer: The Artist in Advertising. Condell, Caitlin and Orr, Emily M., editors. 78–89. New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and Rizzoli Electa. 2020
- Orr, Emily M. 2019. "Spirit of the New." In Smithsonian American Women: Remarkable Objects and Stories of Strength, Ingenuity, and Vision from the National Collection. Pope, Victoria, editor. 113–113. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books. 2019
- Orr, Emily M. 2017. "A Thousand Hands: The Art of the Department Store Display." In The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Coffin, Sarah D. and Harrison, Stephen, editors. 238–266. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 2017
- Orr, Emily M. 2017. "Modern Notes of Energetic America: 1920s Textiles." In The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Coffin, Sarah D. and Harrison, Stephen, editors. 267–325. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 2017
- Orr, Emily M. 2017. "The American Woman as Fashion Muse." In The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Coffin, Sarah D. and Harrison, Stephen, editors. 140–198. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 2017
- Orr, Emily M. 2017. "The Machine Age: Balancing Art and Industry." In The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Coffin, Sarah D. and Harrison, Stephen, editors. 199–211. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 2017
- Orr, Emily. 2015. "Body Doubles: A History of the Mannequin." In Ralph Pucci: Art of the Mannequin. Orr, Emily, Gifford, Barbara, and Yuzna, Jake, editors. 35–55. Seattle: Marquand Books/Museum of Arts and Design. 2015
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Review
- Orr, Emily M. 2019. [Book review] "The Man Who Designed the Future: Norman Bel Geddes and the Invention of Twentieth-Century America, by B. Alexandra Szerlip and Norman Bel Geddes: American Design Visionary, by Nicolas P. Maffei." CAA Reviews, https://doi.org/10.3202/caa.reviews.2019.59. 2019
- Orr, Emily M. 2016. [Book review] "John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life." Journal of Design History, 29, (4), 435–437. https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epw045. 2016
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Thesis
- Orr, Emily M. 2017. "Designing Display in the Department Store: Techniques, Technologies, and Professionalization, 1880-1920." PhD, Royal College of Art. 2017
Editor Of
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Book
- Condell, Caitlin and Orr, Emily M., editors. 2020. E. McKnight Kauffer: The Artist in Advertising. New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and Rizzoli Electa. 2020
Contact
Location
- Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Department
