This retrospective reintroduced a legendary New York-based interior designer and astute businesswoman to both the general public and the design profession. An especially imaginative display took its cues from Draper’s own over-the-top style of neo-baroque decoration and high-voltage color. The show was accompanied by a catalogue.

Mr. Albrecht conceived the idea of the show and catalogue, selected all artifacts, wrote exhibition text, and assembled the design team.

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Press
Segment on CBS Sunday Morning and features in Vanity Fair, New York magazine, Newsweek, the New York Times, Architectural Digest.

“Her eye-popping colors, oversize prints, and controlled flourishes once defined urban interior sophistication. Now the exuberantly anti-Minimalist Dorothy Draper is front and center again.”
Wendy Goodman, New York magazine, March 27, 2006

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Credits
Exhibition designer: Pure+Applied
Custom muralist: Milree Hughes
Lighting designer: Anita Jorgensen
Installation photographer: Harry Zernicke

An exhibiton of more than 250 objects representing the best designs of the legendary American glass company Steuben from the 1930s through the 1950s. Included one-of-a-kind masterpieces by artists Henri Matisse and Salvador Dali, as well as tableware, architectural elements, and expertly designed promotional materials. Lenders comprised an international array of collectors and museums, from the Louvre to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Detroit Institute of Art.

Mr. Albrecht conceived the idea of the show and catalogue, selected all artifacts, wrote exhibition text, and assembled the design team.

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Press
Feature segment on CBS Sunday Morning and features
and reviews in the New York Times .

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Credits
Exhibition designer: John Keenan
Exhibition graphic and catalogue designer: Abbott Miller/Pentagram
Lighting designer: Anita Jorgensen

A pioneer in the concept of “lifestyle marketing,” Russel Wright anticipated the likes of Martha Stewart and Ralph Lauren. Wright designed dinnerware, furniture, decorative objects, all of which were featured in the show. He and his wife Mary Wright wrote best-selling how-to books that influenced a post-World War II generation seeking a casual, yet elegant, American domesticity. Accompanied by a 176-page catalog.

Mr. Albrecht developed the concept and themes of the show, its organization, and he assembled its design team.

> See exhibition catalog

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Press
“The show, a combination of brilliant utility and high-gloss kitsch, should be on the to-see list of anyone interested in the production and marketing of American-manufactured (as opposed to hand-made) design.”
Grace Glueck, New York Times, December 7, 2001

Special segment devoted to the exhibition on Martha Stewart’s television program

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Credits
Co-curator: Robert Schonfeld
Exhibition designer: Matter Practice
Graphic designer: Alicia Cheng/Cooper-Hewitt
Lighting designer: Anita Jorgensen
Installation photographer: Bill Jacobson

This ongoing series of exhibitions and related books takes the pulse of contemporary American architecture and design. The work of 80 to 100 young innovators and mature, but still influential, masters were included in the first two installments, from Frank Gehry to Greg Lynn, Jonathan Ive/Apple Computer to Steven Burks.

Mr. Albrecht co-organized the exhibitions and selected a roster of its featured participants.

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Press
“…this show makes design look like the most protean,
fertile field this side of the Tigris and Euphrates.”
Herbert Muschamp, New York Times, March 10, 2000

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Credits
Co-curators (2000): Ellen Lupton, Steven Skov Holt
Co-curators (2003): Ellen Lupton, Mitchell Owens, Susan Yelavich
Exhibition designer (2000): Michael Gabellini
Exhibition designer (2003): Matter Practice
Exhibition graphic designer: Ellen Lupton
Lighting designer: Anita Jorgensen

Toured 15 museums in Europe, the United States,
Israel, and Japan.

This exhibition was a retrospective of California-based husband-and-wife dynamos who designed architecture, furniture, exhibitions, books, and toys. Credited as pioneers of the information age, the Eameses designed more than sixty projects for IBM, including some of the first touch-screen computer systems.

> See exhibition catalog

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Press
Features and reviews in The New Yorker, New York Times, House Beautiful and an array of international publications.

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Awards
Best Design Exhibition (Second Place), International Association of Art Critics

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Credits
Exhibition designers: Hodgetts+Fung