Towards Modernism: The Walter Cook Collection at Te Papa Judith Nasatir guided (however obscurely) by a

guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters

from restaurants and hotels to museums and Broadway stages

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and to recognize that

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Towards Modernism: The Walter Cook Collection at Te Papa Judith Nasatir guided (however obscurely) by aThe Walter C Cook Collection of Decorative Arts is one of the treasures of Te Papa. Built up over a twenty five year period by Walter Cook, a discerning and determined collector of modest means, its glass, ceramic and metal objects track the evolution of design from the Arts and Crafts era through to the British and European modernism of the 1970s. The worlds leading designers William Morris, Christopher Dresser, Archibald Knox, William Moorcroft,