A maquette of an off-white cross-section of the Guggenheim Museum with an installation of white paper planes, with their noses in downward position, in flight, in a curved diagonal line showing movement on a piece of wire or string attached to the rotunda. The maquette is overlapping a black ground and is illuminated in the lower center focusing on the curved stream of planes.

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Maquette, Paper Starlings

This is a maquette. It was designed by Joris Laarman Lab.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Groninger Museum as part of Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age.

It is dated 2010. Its medium is paper, cardboard.

In 2010, the Guggenheim Museum invited Laarman to create an intervention for the museum's iconic rotunda. Inspired by bird murmurations, Laarman's concept proposed a ͞flock͟ of more than 200 paper planes spiralling gracefully overhead. Laarman developed the proposal with Dutch company United States of Entertainment, MIT, and aerodynamics engineer David Lentink.

It is credited Courtesy of Groninger Museum, the Netherlands.