Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Our curators have highlighted 4 objects that are related to Door With Handle (France), 1925–26.

Painted plywood maquette, or a preliminary sketch, depicting a stylized forest scene with arched, rolling hills, jagged, leafy trees and a lone deer standing erect and looking upward. The overall color palette includes shades of grey and silver, charcoal accents, white highlights, and beige with acid-green accents on the animal. The elements in the scene are overlapping, with the deer centered horizontally and slightly toward the right side of the panel.

Wall Maquette, ca. 1927–28
painted plywood.
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, John Stuart Gordon Gift,....
66.2016.10

Set of jewelry displayed on a flat white background. It features two necklaces and two bracelets. The jewelry is made out of gold alloy with dashes of blue, green, and black lacquer creating a striped pattern. The necklaces are positioned on the upper right side. One of the necklaces is smaller in circumference and is positioned within the larger one in the photo creating double rings. The bracelets are positioned to the right of the necklace - one lower than the other. The bracelets are positioned separately not like the necklaces. The shapes are similar, having one slightly smaller than the other. All pieces are rigid. The necklaces have hook-fasten clasps that seamlessly blend.

Two Necklaces And Two Bracelets, Giraffe, ca. 1927
blue and black lacquer and oréum (gold alloy).
Lent by Siegelson, New York.
61.2016.9a/d

Vase
enamel, copper.
Private Collection.
41.2016.6

A tall black lipped oval brass vase covered with a collage-like dappled pattern created by inlaid egg shell on a red lacquer ground.

Vase, ca. 1925
brass with coquille d’oeuf on red lacquer ground.
Stephen E. Kelly/Kelly Gallery, New York.
38.2016.5