Double-sided wastebasket in the shape of an inverted triangle with two triangular feet and a red interior. One side shows a black background with light rays emanating from top right corner and a skyscraper stack at center. Other side shows an arc curving from top right corner and a stack of half circles at center.

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Object Timeline

1928	Work on this object began.
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Wastebasket, Wastebasket, 1928

This is a wastebasket. It was designed by Donald Deskey. It is dated 1928 and we acquired it in 2018. Its medium is wood, paint, silver leaf.

Donald Deskey’s decorative furnishings included this waste basket of about 1928, which evokes both skyscrapers and electrical lights, and uses the same strong geometries and color contrasts seen on some of his screens. These objects could be mixed with Deskey’s own chrome and mixed-media furniture or Paul Frankl’s Skyscraper forms.

This object was donated by Jacqueline Loewe Fowler. It is credited Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler.

Project files contain magazine and newspaper clippings, reviews, correspondence, renderings, floor plans, perspective drawings, site plans, sketches, preliminary drawings, patents, stationery, labels, and technical reports. There is an extensive collection of photographs and slides of many of Deskey's packaging designs, interiors, furnishings, and exhibition installations. The files of Donald Deskey Associates include organizational charts, client lists, proposals and financial records. Some of Deskey's personal correspondence, speeches, articles, and family photographs are included. Materials cover the period from 1927-1975.

Archives, Donald Deskey Archive, 1927–89
magazine and newspaper clippings, reviews, correspondence, renderings, floor....
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1975-11-77

a) Flat bottle with plastic screw-cap and paper label bearing "Aqua Velva" monogram and fitted legend. b) folding cardboard box bearing "Aqua Velva" monogram and legend. c) folding cardboard box, a smaller version of "B". Labels and boxes printed in metallic blue, gold, and silver on white with black printing.

Aqua Velva Bottle And Box, 1956
glass, paper.
1957-43-1-a/c

Design for table lamp/waste basket with double three-dot pattern; one side black with white dots, other side white with black dots; base reversed white and black.

Drawing, Design for Wastebasket or Table Lamp, 1927–1931
graphite, red, green color pencil on tracing paper.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-838

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Drawing, Abstract Cityscape, 1929–30
graphite, orange crayon on wove paper.
Gift of Anonymous Donor.
1992-127-1

Three paneled screen. The left and right panels are attached to the center panel by hinges. Each panel is painted with an abstract zig-zag pattern in black and silver leaf, and red thin lines.

Screen, ca. 1928
silver leaf, lacquered wood, cast metal (hinges).
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2018-22-29

Two-tiered rectilinear form, the chromed, bent tubular metal frame with rectangular clear glass top surmounted by square clear glass shelf.

End Table (USA), ca. 1933–35
bent chromed metal, glass.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
2006-4-1

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 34.9 × 34.9 × 22.5 cm (13 3/4 × 13 3/4 × 8 7/8 in.)

Cite this object as

Wastebasket, Wastebasket, 1928; Designed by Donald Deskey (American, 1894–1989); wood, paint, silver leaf; H x W x D: 34.9 × 34.9 × 22.5 cm (13 3/4 × 13 3/4 × 8 7/8 in.); Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler; 2018-29-2

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2FYP44/
Accession Number 2018-29-2
Object ID 1108784669