Art Center College of Design (Venue Partner)
1700 Lida St
(see event description for alternate locations)
626.396.2200
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Patent Models
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June 3, 2010 – Aug 15, 2010
Daily (noon–5pm)
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Directions: http://www.artcenter.edu/accd/visitingaccd.jsp
- Price
“As testament of the ceaselessly inventive American mind and geared towards lifestyle improvement, The Curious World of Patent Models produces myriad miniaturized models of invention, all registered with the US Patent Department since its inception in 1790. Included are tenderly-crafted, antique prototypes for practical inventions and improvements on (currently) common-place products—wallpaper, clothes-driers, tools, and "time indicators." Pragmatism outweighs madness, yet a few fanciful notions prevail including a Victorian "Pigeon Starter," a faux cat that "pounces" to startle captive pigeons into the sightline of awaiting huntsman. Speculation is par for the course, and a few models, like the 1869 roller skate, prompt queries as to which inventors, if any, became successful arbiters of the next big thing. In contrast to the quaintness, The Future of Objects traverses time and space to include samples of cutting-edge 3-D print technology.”
A. McLean Emenegger, Flavorpill
The Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery at Art Center is continuing its series of explorations into the intersecting domains of art, science, technology, and design with side-by-side exhibitions that look at the interplay between the technologies used to fabricate objects and the thought-processes used to conceive them.
The Curious World of Patent Models is presented by the Rothschild Patent Model Collection as part of a fourteen-city, three-year national tour; and The Future of Objects is supported in part by Solid Concepts.
