Two-tiered rectilinear form, the chromed, bent tubular metal frame with rectangular clear glass top surmounted by square clear glass shelf.

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Object Timeline

1928	Work on this object began.
1940	Work on this object ended.
2006	We acquired this object.
2012	We photographed this object. We photographed this object. We photographed this object. This was an Object of the Day.
2015	We photographed this object.
2016	You found it!

End Table (USA), ca. 1933–35

This is a End table. It was designed by Donald Deskey and manufactured by Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Company and made for Richard H. Mandel House. It is dated ca. 1933–35 and we acquired it in 2006. Its medium is bent chromed metal, glass. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Deskey, an industrial design pioneer and furniture designer, was largely inspired by European modernist styles such as Art Deco and the Bauhaus. From this inspiration, Deskey developed an American modernism of affordable and distinctive furniture and interiors, including the first domestic line of chrome-plated metal furniture. This end table made use of chrome-plating and was designed as part of the Richard H. Mandel House in Bedford Hills, New York, done entirely in the modernist International Style.

This object was featured in our Object of the Day series in a post titled A Deskey Table.

This object was purchased from Sotheby's and fund: General Acquisitions Endowment. It is credited Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.

Our curators have highlighted 6 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

An isometric view of a prefabricated sportsman's cabin with slanted shed roof. Rooms include living area with sofa and fireplace, and sleeping quarter with three beds (two are bunked). This drawing was published in published in Robert W. Marks, "Donald Deskey's Sportshack..." Esquire, vol. 14 (August, 1940), p. 69. A model of Sportshack was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's, Contemporary Industrial Design exhibition in 1940 and life-size at the America at Home exhibition in the 1940 season of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair.

Drawing, Design for Sportshack, 1940
brush and gouache, black ink, airbrush and gouache over stencil, graphite on....
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-1515

Drawing, Console
graphite, green pencil support: tracing paper.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-700

Side chair composed of black tubular steel rods, some diagonally set, bent to form the chair's outline and volume.

Thin Black Lines (21400 mm chair) Chair, 2010
bent and welded powder-coated steel rods.
Gift of nendo.
2014-36-1

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 46.5 x 46.4 x 58 cm (18 5/16 x 18 1/4 x 22 13/16 in.)

Cite this object as

End Table (USA), ca. 1933–35; Designed by Donald Deskey (American, 1894–1989); bent chromed metal, glass; H x W x D: 46.5 x 46.4 x 58 cm (18 5/16 x 18 1/4 x 22 13/16 in.); Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund; 2006-4-1

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2DSuZ/
Accession Number 2006-4-1
Object ID 18705521