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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1928	Work on this object began.
1940	Work on this object ended.
2006	We acquired this object.
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End Table (USA), ca. 1933–35

This is a End table. It was designed by Donald Deskey and manufactured by Metallon and 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.

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

Free-standing rotary card file supported by single tubular metal element, bent to form U-shaped foot, with ends rising to terminate at opposite black plastic terminal knobs. Foot with four gray rubber cuffs.

Rolodex Open Rotary Card File, 1950
bent tubular metal, molded plastic, rubber, paper.
Gift of Rolodex Corporation.
1996-14-2

In the form of an openwork frame, the rectangular base set with seven alternating triangular supports along length of base; tall T-shaped handle rises from center; short peg foot at each corner of base.

Toast Rack (England), ca. 1879
silver-plated metal.
Museum purchase through gift of Margery and Edgar Masinter and from General....
2002-22-1

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Plumen 001 Light Bulb, 2010
glass, molded abs plastic, wire, electronics.
Gift of Hulger.
2011-39-4

At center, a rounded tan shape, with green abstraction at upper left; flanked by vertical bands in black with right side containing wavy brown lines. Verso: part of printed information about the manufacturer of the board:
...AMCO/....TRATION BOARD/...AN ARTISTS SUPPLY CO., INC.,/..New York

Drawing, Design for the Lysistrata Lacquer Screen, Gilbert Seldes Apartment,...
brush and gouache, silver paint, graphite on illustration board.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1975-11-13

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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

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/2DSuZ/
Accession Number 2006-4-1
Object ID 18705521