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Drawing, Television cabinet
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Henry Dreyfuss Associates. It is dated June 18, 1953 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is graphite, red, white color pencil on tracing paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This is one of a group of drawings proposed for acquisition that document work by the Dreyfuss firm during the postwar years, for clients including Royal Typewriter (1944–45), New York Central Railroad (mid-1940s), RCA (1946–55), National Supply Co. (1949–58), and Cities Service (1951–62).
A number of the finished drawings correspond to prototypes or other documentation held in Cooper-Hewitt’s Dreyfuss archives, including those for RCA radio/phonograph and television consoles, and two beautiful drawings for Bell Telephone Laboratories of public phone booths.
It is credited Gift of John Bruce.
![A drawn design on cream paper for a telephone booth in three-quarter view on a diagonal. On three of the walls there are four square windows bordered in dark blue. The opening to enter is on the fourth wall, with a red rectangular pillar adjacent to it with a blue bell inside a blue circle printed on it, and the word [PHONE] written vertically and horizontally in white capital letters above and to the side of the logo. The design is surrounded by sketches outlining measurements, notations, and variations on the phone booth plan in brown color pencil and graphite.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/329194_7b883751e0587163_n.jpg "Drawing, Design for Telephone Booth")
- Drawing, Design for Telephone Booth
- chalk, graphite, color pencil on yellow tracing paper.
- Gift of John Bruce.
- 1993-65-24
Its dimensions are
35.6 x 43.1 cm (14 in. x 16 15/16 in.)
It is signed
Signed in red color pencil, lower left: Mouton / 6-18-53
Cite this object as
Drawing, Television cabinet; Designed by Henry Dreyfuss Associates (United States); USA; graphite, red, white color pencil on tracing paper; 35.6 x 43.1 cm (14 in. x 16 15/16 in.); Gift of John Bruce; 1993-65-18
