Christian Larsen is a cultural historian and curator specialized in 19th and 20th century architecture and design, with a focus on Latin America. In his recent role as Associate Curator of Modern Decorative Arts and Design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2015-2019), he organized Ettore Sottsass: Design Radical at The Met Breuer (2017). He also was custodian to one of the most important collections of French Deco outside Paris. As Curator at the Wolfsonian-Florida International University (2013-15), his exhibition and catalogue Philodendron: From Pan-Latin Exotic to American Modern (2015) received an Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Exhibition Award. As a former curator in the Architecture & Design Department, MoMA (2000-08), he organized several exhibitions including Digitally Mastered (2006-07), 50 Years of Helvetica (2007-08), and Ateliers Jean Prouvé (2008-09). He received a B.A. from Amherst College (2000), M.A. (2010) and M.Phil (2013) in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center, where he is a doctoral candidate finishing his dissertation Aquarela do Brasil: Transnational Flows of Brazilian Design and Material Culture.