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Drawing, Bar Galliera

This is a Drawing. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and gouache, collage on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This drawing is a spectacular evocation of Matégot’s design approach. The colorful, yet sophisticated palette and the slender, low-slung furnishings tie the drawing directly to Matégot’s Japanese- and Scandinavian-inspired designs for chairs, tables, and cabinets.

This object was donated by George R. Kravis II.

Furniture pieces shown in perspective at right and left. At left, is piano bench draped with cloth next to vase and books. At right, taboret, also adorned with cloth runner and potted bonsai tree.

Drawing, Piano Bench and Taboret, Henry J. Allen Residence, Wichita, KA, 1917
graphite, color pencil on cream tracing paper.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Regents Collections Acquisition and Friends....
1983-1-3

Office interior with three areas/desks/cubicles; one wall has the Vitruvian man in red.

Drawing, Office space, 1950s
graphite, red color pencil on tracing paper.
Gift of John Bruce.
1993-65-7

Drawing, Library or Office Interior
brush and watercolor, gouache on white wove paper.
2007-27-65

Our curators have highlighted 4 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

Design for bathroom interior of prefabricated fiberglass house. Interior perspective shows bathroom with double vanity with in brown and orange at left; counter angles rightward, becoming a shallow ledge below what could be a square wall mirror and a series of shelves with rolling cabinet fronts over toilet at center. Toilet, like vanity, floats out from wall. To the right of the toilet, length of wall decorated with stylized oblong honeycomb-and-circle pattern, possibly extrusion molded. To the right of this panel is a walk-in shower without visible hardware. Further to the right is a stack of cabinets and storage space, which abuts an interior garden bed with succulent plants and trees. Floor pavement is alternating stripes of smooth light orange material and darker orange tiles.

Drawing, Design for Bathroom Interior, Fiberglass House, 1971
pastel crayon, brush and white gouache, graphite on white wove paper mounted....
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-1520

Interior with dropped wood ceiling. To the left is a long cabinet with a floral arrangement on top and shelves above. The rear center of the room is occupied by an office desk and armchair. On the right is a bench/cabinet combination piece of furniture. The back wall has Venetian blinds and a colorful tapestry (probably designed by Matégot, the location of which is unknown).

Drawing, Design for an Interior, ca. 1950
brush and gouache, wood laminate, pen and black ink, cellophane, metal foil....
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
1996-54-1

Interior scene, corner of a room with two white chairs and oval round table over white rug.

Drawing, Architectural Interior, ca. 1936
brush and watercolor, graphite on white paper.
Museum purchase from James Amster Fund.
1989-1-2

Cite this object as

Drawing, Bar Galliera; pen and ink, brush and gouache, collage on paper; 2018-22-115

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Energizing the Everyday: Gifts From the George R. Kravis II Collection.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/DasWz/
Accession Number 2018-22-115
Object ID 420556989