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1936

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1988

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Drawing, Design for Desk, Brown Palace Hotel, 321 17th Street, Denver, CO

This is a Drawing. It was overseen (as design director) by Donald Deskey and from the office of Donald Deskey. It is dated 1936 and we acquired it in 1988. Its medium is graphite on tracing paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Donald Deskey. It is credited Gift of Donald Deskey.

Its dimensions are

34 × 37.5 cm (13 3/8 × 14 3/4 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamp in blue ink, lower right: DONALD DESKEY / 630 FIFTH AVENUE / NEW YORK CITY; later stamps in black ink at upper right and center

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, center right: WOOD / PALDAO & SYCAMORE / SOLID WALNUT PULLS / QUANTITY / 20 ROUND CORNER RIGHT / 21 ROUND CORNER LEFT; in graphite, lower right: SCALE 1"—1'–0"; in graphite, lower right:8481 [circled]; in graphite: dimensions, materials, views

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Desk, Brown Palace Hotel, 321 17th Street, Denver, CO; Office of Donald Deskey (American, 1894–1989); USA; graphite on tracing paper; 34 × 37.5 cm (13 3/8 × 14 3/4 in.); Gift of Donald Deskey; 1988-101-1772

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