<img width="640" height="795" src="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/105892_89a5ebe48e671198_b-700x869.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/105892_89a5ebe48e671198_b-700x869.jpg 700w, http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/105892_89a5ebe48e671198_b-242x300.jpg 242w, http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/105892_89a5ebe48e671198_b-170x211.jpg 170w, http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/105892_89a5ebe48e671198_b-e1515718668420.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="28026" data-permalink="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/2018/01/12/eugene-v-thaw-an-appreciation/92-2005-25/" data-orig-file="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/105892_89a5ebe48e671198_b-e1515718668420.jpg" data-orig-size="600,745" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"ImaconFlextight949","camera":"","caption":"Photographer: Ali Elai","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"92.2005.25","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="92.2005.25" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/105892_89a5ebe48e671198_b-242x300.jpg" data-large-file="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/105892_89a5ebe48e671198_b-700x869.jpg" />When the collector and art dealer Eugene Thaw asked Cooper Hewitt if we would be interested in the collection of eighteenth- to twentieth-century staircase models that he had assembled, he was displaying the generosity of spirit and desire to share his collections that informed much of Gene and his wife Clare’s philanthropy. He knew that...
