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1928	Work on this object began.
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Chanin Building Pair Of Gates

This is a Pair of Gates. It was designed by René Paul Chambellan. It is dated 1928 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is wrought iron, bronze. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

René Paul Chambellan designed these gates for the entrance to the executive office suite of the Chanin Building in New York. The radiating-ray design, which connects to Futurism and Cubism, is surrounded by decorative machine cogs, bringing industrial motifs into interiors a year after New York’s Machine-Age Exposition of 1927.

This object was donated by Mr. Marcy Chanin. It is credited Gift of Marcy Chanin.

Drawing, Iron Gates of the Mint, Paris
pen and black ink, brush and blue, brown, gray wash, with black chalk....
Gift of Marquis Val Verde de la Sierra.
1923-51-2

Balcony Grille (France)
wrought iron.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1908-26-120

Grille
wrought iron.
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1907-19-20

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

Round medal made out of silver-plated brass. Sections of the outer edges of the medal are embossed with text. “TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF” on the upper-right section and “MOTOR TRANSPORTATION” on its lower-left. At the center is an embossed rendering of a stylized car with vertical wings. At the bottom of this symbol is the text “NORMAN BEL GEDDES © 1933”

Object ID #404536647
silver-plated brass.
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2018-22-27

Object ID #18475183
black chalk on cream tracing paper.
Gift of Orinoka Mills.
1971-57-7

Horizontally rectangular iron railing. Winding floral patterns fill the structure, with varying sizes of flower petals throughout. At the center of the railing is the letter H, surrounded by several borders, including a white, ovular border comprised of white squares all around it, then a horseshoe-shaped border in black, then a U-shaped border underneath of iron, with repeating open O-shapes throughout the horseshoe.

Railing For The Cleveland Play House, ca. 1927
wrought iron, brass.
Lent by Rose Iron Works Collections, LLC.
72.2016.4

Its dimensions are

H x W x D (-1): 189.2 x 114.3 x 11.4cm (74 1/2 x 45 x 4 1/2 in.) H x W x D (-2): 189.2 x 114.3 x 11.4 cm (74 1/2 x 45 x 4 1/2 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s and Making Design.

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Accession Number 1993-135-1,2
Object ID 18733333