A drawing, rendering of door wall elevation of dining room created using graphite and colored crayon on tracing paper (used for several iterations). The rectangular shape of the wall on a horizontal orientation with two double doors possessing eight nature-like panels and blue handles includes a roof design drawn of three horizontally placed curves that grow in pitch. Located between the double doors is a sculpture resting on a pedestal constructed of a short wrought iron fluted column. To the right and left of the double doors are wrought iron U-formed pedestals with showcases for two objects balancing the design and overlap a gridded design on the wall. Iron work accents adorn the design at edges at both walls, where the wall meets the roof and possibly around the double doors. The photograph captures the drawing with a white border.

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Drawing, Rendering of Door Wall Elevation of Dining Room, Agnes Miles Carpenter Apartment, 950 Fifth Ave., New York

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1926 and we acquired it in 1958. Its medium is graphite, color crayon on tracing paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

Designer and decorator Jules Bouy embraced the use of wrought iron in decorative furnishings. In this rendering from 1926 for the dining room of Agnes Miles Carpenter on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, Bouy proposes a holistic interior scheme that features iron furniture set against white walls with accent colors of gray and blue. This elegant drawing, which is made with graphite and blue crayon, highlights the modernity of iron as a decorative material and as an organizing theme in interior design.

It is credited Gift of the Estate of Agnes M. Carpenter.

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graphite, blue crayon on tracing paper.
Gift of the Estate of Agnes M. Carpenter.
1958-133-1

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Its dimensions are

36.5 × 52.9 cm (14 3/8 × 20 13/16 in.) Mat: 41 × 55.9 cm (16 1/8 in. × 22 in.)

It is signed

Signed in blue crayon, lower right: J. B.

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, lower right: Project no. 2081 / May 12th 1926 / No. 545 -D.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Rendering of Door Wall Elevation of Dining Room, Agnes Miles Carpenter Apartment, 950 Fifth Ave., New York; France; graphite, color crayon on tracing paper; 36.5 × 52.9 cm (14 3/8 × 20 13/16 in.) Mat: 41 × 55.9 cm (16 1/8 in. × 22 in.); Gift of the Estate of Agnes M. Carpenter; 1958-133-5

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/2CpZK/
Accession Number 1958-133-5
Object ID 18421249