His “Normandie” pitcher is one of the prime examples of Art Deco streamlining, sleek as a funnel on that great steamliner and elegant as one of its staterooms. And yet Peter Muller-Munk himself, who designed it in 1935, has passed largely from view.

Now the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh has announced its intention to make us notice him: On Nov. 21, the museum opens “Silver to Steel: The Modern Designs of Peter Muller-Munk,” the first survey of the designer.