This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Shopping bag enthusiast builds artful home collection
Lee Forman collects shopping bags as cultural artifacts, displaying 500 plus items from Bloomingdale’s to Warhol designs. Her McLean home features bags in every room, with notable pieces by Warhol and Lichtenstein, and institutional holdings at Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian, and Texas A&M.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Forman
Forman
Nordstrom’s
Neiman’s
John Littleton
Kate Vogel
White House
McLean
Lauren
Grant
Howard
Barbara Hawthorn
Hawthorn
Bloomingdale's
China
Rizzoli
Universe Publishing Division
Michelman
Paris
Christian Lacroix
Ines de la Fressange
Newark Public Library
Smithsonian
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
New York
Benz Gallery of
Texas A&m University
Floral Design
Samantha Finch
Cooper-Hewitt
Pantheon
Giovanni Pannini
Auguste Renoir
Frank Stella
David Hockney
Dayton-Hudson
Roy Lichtenstein
Warhol
Lichtenstein
Boston Institute of Contemporary Art
Andrea Marinkovich
Burton Marinkovich
Washington
Marinkovich
Bloomingdale’s
Ettore Sottsass
Michael Graves
Richard Avedon
Sonia Rykiel
Tai
Rosita Missoni
Bloomingdale
Massimo Vignelli
Rehoboth
Del
Harrods
William Woody
Washington Design Center
Burns Brothers Cleaners
Andy Warhol
Eli Wood
Lawrence
Liberty Memorial High School