Larry Salk, Summer Cocktail Party with English Butler, 1961 , Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
West Palm Beach, FL - Norton Museum in West Palm Beach is hosting a multi-disciplinary exhibition that explores the social rituals of the cocktail hour through the lens of fashion and design. The show features more than 150 objects, including attire, accessories, ads, decorative arts, illustrations, photography and more from the 1920s to the present. The objects are draw from the collections of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Newark Museum, the Tiffany & Co. Archive, Miottel Museum in California, as well as a number of private collectors. Somewhat reminiscent of RISD’s Cocktail Culture that I saw earlier this year (April 15-July 31), this exhibition’s organizers promise that Cocktail Culture will “leave you positively stirred, not shaken!”
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