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Drawing, Beaded Alphabet, D
This is a Drawing, beaded alphabet. It was designed by Nikolai Haas, The Haas Sisters of Monkeybiz and The Haas Brothers and manufactured by Simon Haas.
This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from The Haas Brothers and R & Company as part of Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial.
This drawing explains one of the beading patterns used to create the flowers in the Afreaks collection. The beads are assembled using hyperbolic geometric structures. Such patterns govern many natural phenomena, including as coral formations. The Haas Brothers created an “alphabet” of twenty-six hyperbolic flowers that communicate these patterns to The Haas Sisters, who have not had access to formal math education.
It is credited Courtesy of R & Company, New York and The Haas Brothers, Los Angeles.
- Drawing, Design for a Necklace
- brush and gouache, gold paint, black marking pen on tracing paper.
- Museum purchase from the Monet Fund.
- 1984-54-2-1
- Fragment
- 1953-197-5
- Drawing, Study of Sky
- graphite on paper.
- Gift of Louis P. Church.
- 1917-4-1283-b
Our curators have highlighted 13 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Sketch, Alphabet Algorithm, Pre-alphabet 1
- pen and marker on paper.
- Courtesy of R & Company, New York and The Haas Brothers, Los Angeles.
- 76.2015.21
- Sketch, Alphabet Algorithm, Pre-alphabet 2
- pen and marker on paper.
- Courtesy of R & Company, New York and The Haas Brothers, Los Angeles.
- 76.2015.22
- Textile, Rhythm
- linen.
- Gift of Henry C. and Eleanor Kluck.
- 1985-84-14-a,b
Its dimensions are
H x W: 45.7 × 45.7 cm (18 × 18 in.)
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial.
