**_Campana Brothers Select:
Works From the Permanent Collection_**
Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana are known for using unlikely materials to create their furniture. Case in point: the Vermelha chair, left, made from 500 meters of red cotton rope. It&amp;#39;s one of many pieces at this new Campana-curated exhibit at New York&amp;#39;s Cooper-Hewitt museum. Also shown: mid-media pieces from the 16th to 20th centuries, plus items from the duo&amp;#39;s TransPlastic series, which examines the conflict between nature and man-made materials. Cotton rope aside, it looks like plastic&amp;#39;s winning.
Campana Brothers Select: Works From the Permanent Collection, through Sept. 28, 2 E. 91st St., (212) 849-8400, New York, cooperhewitt.org