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Desk And Bookcase With Side Chair And Blotter
This is a Desk and Bookcase with Side Chair and Blotter. It was designed by Paul T. Frankl and Paul Rodier. It is dated ca. 1927. Its medium is desk and bookcase: mahogany, cedrela, zebrawood, yellow poplar, and pine with aluminum leaf chair: ash with aluminum leaf blotter: silk over paperboard.
In 1927 Joseph Urban asked Frankl to design the furnishings for a bedroom in Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach house for Marjorie Merriweather Post (Mrs. E. F. Hutton) that Urban was redesigning in an Italian-Spanish hybrid style. While other rooms featured a variety of historically themed furnishings, Frankl’s room was to be modern.
It is credited Lent by Yale University Art Gallery, Bequest of Clara Migeon Swayze, by exchange, 1993.107.1.1-.3.
- Desk (USA)
- lacquered wood, painted canvas, chromed metal.
- Gift of Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz.
- 2006-24-1
- Envelope, Paul Frankl Galleries
- woodcut on paper.
- Museum purchase through bequest of Ida C. McNeil in memory of Lincoln C.....
- 1992-145-1
- M-1, Type B2 Clock
- chromium-plated and enameled metal, molded bakelite, brushed-burnished silver.
- Gift of George R. Kravis II.
- 2015-41-1
Our curators have highlighted 3 objects that are related to this one.
- Chair, Skyscraper
- painted pine.
- Collection of Jody and Dick Goisman.
- 44.2016.1
- Peacock Side Chair Chair
- oak, leatherette upholstery.
- Gift of Tetsuzo Inumaru.
- 1968-137-1-c
- Carpet
- hemp and wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut....
- Lent by The Art Institute of Chicago, Royalties from The Warner Fund, 1987.21.
- 34.2016.8
Its dimensions are
Desk and Bookcase: 118.1 x 139.1 x 57.2 cm (46 1/2 x 54 3/4 x 22 1/2 in.) Chair: 76.52 x 47.63 x 44.45 cm (30 1/8 x 18 3/4 x 17 1/2 in.) Blotter: 56.2 x 42.55 cm (22 1/8 x 16 3/4 in.) -
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
