Show explores range, imagination of Heatherwick design

The imaginative and wide-ranging work of Britain's Heatherwick Studio may still be little-known in the United States, but a traveling exhibition aims to change that.

Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio is now on at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York through Jan 3. The major midcareer survey was organized by the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, and has also already been on view at Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

It explores designer Thomas Heatherwick's joyful takes on everything from furniture to architecture, holiday cards to arty air vents. His range of interests led his mentor, designer Terence Conran, to call him "the Leonardo da Vinci of our times."