Exhibits
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Jeffers, Grace
label: Collection Creator
content: Formica Corporation.
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content: Formica Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981-1994
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0565, Series 7
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series consists of material documenting design competitions and exhibitions sponsored by Formica is in the series Exhibits, 1981-1994, including correspondence, photographs, slides, exhibition catalogs, brochures, posters, press releases, and articles. The series highlights Formica-sponsored traveling exhibits including Surface & Ornament, Material Evidence: New Color Techniques in Handmade Furniture, and Surface and Edge. These exhibits featured interior designs, furniture and jewelry made from Formica's 1980s product lines including COLORCORE, NUVEL, and SURELL. Material also covers the Contemporary COLORCORE Exhibition of 1986 and the corresponding tour of Japan and Taiwan. Additionally, the series features exhibitions carried out in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit Service (SITES), the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and a proposed Melrose Diner Exhibit at the National Museum of American History in 1987.