Design for carpet for Radio City Music Hall with all-over repeat pattern of cubist guitars and cocktail glasses. Stylized guitars and cocktail glasses with maraschino cherries play across geometric background in tones of terra cotta, navy, brown and tan. Objects placed on diagonal axis and punctuated by mottled dots throughout. Black border.

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Object Timeline

-0001	We photographed this object.
1932	Work on this object began.
1975	We acquired this object.
2011	We photographed this object.
2012	This was an Object of the Day.
2015	We photographed this object.
2021	You found it!

Drawing, Design for Carpet: Guitars and Cocktail Glasses for Radio City Music Hall, 1260 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY, 1932

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Donald Deskey and attributed to Donald Deskey and from the office of Donald Deskey and after Ruth Reeves and made for (as the client) Radio City Music Hall. It is dated 1932 and we acquired it in 1975. Its medium is brush and gouache, graphite on cream illustration board, lined. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Radio City Music Hall: A Celebration of American Modern Design.

This object was donated by Donald Deskey. It is credited Gift of Donald Deskey.

Portable phonograph in square aluminum case with rounded edges and corners; red plastic handle and control dials; one side with pierced slits for speaker. Bottom of case contains metal deck with red turntable, needle arm, domed speaker and controls. Lid with file holder with sheet metal dividers to house records.

RCA Victor Special Phonograph Phonograph, ca. 1935
aluminum, chromium-plated steel, metal, plastic, felt, leather, velvet.
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2016-5-11

Its dimensions are

29.7 x 35.1 cm (11 11/16 x 13 13/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite by later hand, left edge of verso: Ruth Reeves

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Carpet: Guitars and Cocktail Glasses for Radio City Music Hall, 1260 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY, 1932; Designed by Donald Deskey (American, 1894–1989); USA; brush and gouache, graphite on cream illustration board, lined; 29.7 x 35.1 cm (11 11/16 x 13 13/16 in.) ; Gift of Donald Deskey; 1975-11-42

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2CKsi/
Accession Number 1975-11-42
Object ID 18486705