Low, square table. The wooden top in light brown has a black outer rim and is decorated in the center with an enameled, stylized still life motif in white and black reminiscent of abstracted flowers and leaves in a vase. The base consists of two double straps of shiny aluminum, attached underneath the center of each side of the table top and bent to form a cross on the floor. Both the table top and table base have rounded corners.

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Object Timeline

-0001	We photographed this object.
1928	Work on this object began.
1929	Work on this object ended.
1993	We acquired this object.
1999	We photographed this object. We photographed this object.
2014	We photographed this object.
2015	We photographed this object.
2017	We exhibited this object.
2024	You found it!

Table (USA)

This is a table. It was designed by Donald Deskey and manufactured by Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Company. It is dated ca. 1928 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is enameled metal, aluminum, wood. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Chrome-plated tubing and solid metal remained a provocative element of modernist design throughout the 1920s and early ’30s in the hands of Kem Weber, Gilbert Rohde, Donald Deskey, and others who used it in various combinations with other materials.Donald Deskey started to experiment with new materials, forming a 1927–31 partnership with Philip Vollmer in which he mixed media. As shown in this table from about 1928, Deskey was among the first designers to use chrome for domestic furniture, pairing it with wood enlivened with abstract decorative motifs.

It is credited Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition and General Acquisitions Endowment Funds.

Handles (USA)
aluminum.
Gift of E. Paul Charak.
1987-1-1-a/d

A two-tiered, linear, tubular metal and clear glass end table. The frame is formed from chromed, bent tubular metal and has an asymmetrical structure, with a square, clear glass top, and a rectangular, clear glass shelf, the curved edges of the base are joined by a straight chrome metal bar in the center.

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

Table (USA)
chrome-plated metal, vitrolite.
Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund and through....
1993-48-1-a,b

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

Table Lamp
chrome-plated steel, brass.
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2015-41-11

Model SN3 Table
cut mahogany and wrought iron.
Gift of the David Teiger Trust.
2016-36-1

Its dimensions are

41 x 61 x 61 cm (16 1/8 x 24 x 24 in. )

Cite this object as

Table (USA); Designed by Donald Deskey (American, 1894–1989); Manufactured by Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Company; enameled metal, aluminum, wood; 41 x 61 x 61 cm (16 1/8 x 24 x 24 in. ); Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition and General Acquisitions Endowment Funds; 1993-111-4

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/2DxWM/
Accession Number 1993-111-4
Object ID 18643101