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Ed Paschke, Casey, 1975. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, bequest of Ruth S. Nath
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

George Segal, Box: Man in Bar, 1969. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Bergman
© The George and Helen Segal Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Christo, Orange Store Front, 1964–65. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Natalie and Irving Forman
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Allen Jones, Chair, 1969. Collection Vitra Design Museum. © Allen Jones
Photo: Andreas Sütterlin

A glossy lime green chair with an indentation intended for sitting, is shown in front of a white backdrop. — Eero Aarnio, Pastilli, 1967. Collection Vitra Design Museum © Studio Eero Arnio
Photo: Andreas Sütterlin

Studio 65, Capitello by Gufram, armchair, 1972. Collection Vitra Design Museum. © Gufram
Photo © Vitra Design Museum

Alex Hay, Light Bulb, 1964. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Irving Stenn Jr., purchased jointly with funds provided by the Anixter Art Acquisition Fund
Courtesy of Peter Freeman Inc

Vivid painting of a bumpy and hairy teal purse that levitates above a slatted floor and in front of a faded blue and purple background — Ed Paschke, Hair Bag, 1971. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, bequest of Ruth S. Nath
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Cans II, 1969. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Beatrice Cummings Mayer
© 2014 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Michal Raz-Russo, © MCA Chicago

Claes Oldenburg, Sculpture in the Form of a Fried Egg, 1966/71. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Anne and William J. Hokin
© 1964 Claes Oldenburg. Photo © MCA Chicago

Studio 65, Bocca, 1970. Collection Vitra Design Museum. © Gufram

Verner Panton, Heart Shaped Cone Chair K3, 1959. Collection Vitra Design Museum. © Panton Design, Basel

Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, No. 200, Sella telephone stool, 1957. Collection Vitra Design Museum © Foundation Achille Castiglioni

Claes Oldenburg, Green Beans, 1964. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Anne and William J. Hokin. © 1964 Claes Oldenburg
Photo: Joe Ziolkowski, © MCA Chicago

Superstudio, Passiflora, lamp, 1968. Collection Vitra Design Museum © Centro Studi Poltronova

G. Ceretti, P.Derossi, R.Rosso, Pratone by Gufram, lounge chair, 1971. © Gufram
Photo © Vitra Design Museum

A couch has seats and a back made of a sequence of circular cushions. The cushions on the seat are black, and the cushions on the back are yellow. The couches framework is made of black bars. — George Nelson Associates, Marshmallow, Sofa, 1956. Collection Vitra Design Museum © Vitra Design Museum

Verner Panton, Living Tower, 1968. Collection Vitra Design Museum. © Panton Design, Basel

Charles Eames, LAR, 1950. Collection Vitra Design Museum. © Eames Office LLC (eamesoffice.com)

An oval-shaped portrait of a man is repeated in seven rows. The legibility and quality of the portrait varies, and on the left of the painting it appears in bright pink, red, yellow, and blue; on the right in black and white. — Andy Warhol, Troy Diptych, 1962. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Mrs. Robert B. Mayer
© 2014 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Photo © MCA Chicago

Installation view, The Street, the Store, and the Silver Screen: Pop Art from the MCA Collection, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Work shown: Claes Oldenburg, Sculpture in the Form of a Fried Egg, 1966/71. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Anne and William J. Hokin, 1986.65. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Work shown: Eduardo Paolozzi, Diana as an Engine, 1963. British Council Collection, London. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Work shown: Studio 65, Bocca, 1970. Gufram – Barolo (CN), Italy. Vitra Design Museum. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Work shown: Images of interiors designed by Alexander Girard: the Girard family home in Santa Fe (where they took up residence in 1953), the Herman Miller showroom in San Francisco (1959), the theme restaurant La Fonda del Sol in New York (1959/60) and the Textiles & Objects home furnishings store, also in New York (1961). Most of these photographs were taken by Charles Eames. Photo: Nathan Keay
© MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Work shown: Studio DA, Pillola, 1968. Ponteur, Bergamo, BG, Italy. Vitra Design Museum. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Work shown: Anonymous, Untitled, 1950/51. Tupperware Corporation, Farnumsville, Massachusetts. Vitra Design Museum. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Work shown: H. C. Westermann, Memorial of the Idea of a Man if he was an Idea, 1958. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Susan and Lewis Manilow Collection of Chicago Artists, 1993.34. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Work shown: Studio 65, Bocca, 1970. Gufram – Barolo (CN), Italy. Vitra Design Museum. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago. December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Work shown: H. C. Westermann, Memorial of the Idea of a Man if he was an Idea, 1958. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Susan and Lewis Manilow Collection of Chicago Artists, 1993.34. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Work shown: Claes Oldenburg, Green Beans, 1964. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Anne and William J. Hokin, 1996.5.a–r. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Work shown: Ed Ruscha, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, 1966. Private Collection. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Work shown: Arman, Alarm Clocks, 1960. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Debra and Robert N. Mayer from the Robert B. Mayer Memorial Loan Collection, 1983.85. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Work shown: Robert Indiana, The Golden Zero, 1964. Art Institute of Chicago, gift of the estates of Walter and Dawn Clark Netsch. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Work shown: Andy Warhol, Mao Tse-Tung, 1972. Palm Springs Art Museum, gift of Mr. and Mrs. David C. Ruttenberg. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Work shown: Lance Wyman, Mexico 68, 1968. Logotype of the Olympic Games in Mexico. Vitra Design Museum. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Pop Art Design, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015–March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago