Black and tan desk with side table placed on top of it. Desk consists of two black legs with tan shelves coming off of them to the sides. The top of the desk has a narrow, tan drawer with two black knobs. The top of the desk also has tan shelving coming off both sides of it. On top of the desk is a side table, which also has black legs, with tan shelves coming out of the bottom and top of the legs. In between the desk and table is an orange blotter.

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Object ID #907214281

This is a Desk and Bookcase with Side Chair and Blotter. It was designed by Paul T. Frankl and Paul Rodier. It is dated ca. 1927. Its medium is desk and bookcase: mahogany, cedrela, zebrawood, yellow poplar, and pine with aluminum leaf chair: ash with aluminum leaf blotter: silk over paperboard.

In 1927 Joseph Urban asked Frankl to design the furnishings for a bedroom in Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach house for Marjorie Merriweather Post (Mrs. E. F. Hutton) that Urban was redesigning in an Italian-Spanish hybrid style. While other rooms featured a variety of historically themed furnishings, Frankl’s room was to be modern.

It is credited Lent by Yale University Art Gallery, Bequest of Clara Migeon Swayze, by exchange, 1993.107.1.1-.3.

Desk (USA)
lacquered wood, painted canvas, chromed metal.
Gift of Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz.
2006-24-1

Envelope, Paul Frankl Galleries
woodcut on paper.
Museum purchase through bequest of Ida C. McNeil in memory of Lincoln C.....
1992-145-1

Analogue clock. Base is black, resembling a bracket facing upward, holding the rectangular shape of the clock's body. The sides and top are metal, as are the hands of the clock. The numbers are black and surrounded by a red border, whose shape resemebles grooves or gears of a watch. From the edges of the clock to the red border are shapes resembling triangles whose tips get cut off by the red circle. The shapes go around the red borer and alternate between grey and tan. Separating each of these shapes is a small, black rectangle placed along the adjacent edges of two shapes.

M-1, Type B2 Clock, ca. 1928
chromium-plated and enameled metal, molded bakelite, brushed-burnished silver.
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2015-41-1

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Chair, Skyscraper
painted pine.
Collection of Jody and Dick Goisman.
44.2016.1

Peacock Side Chair
oak, leatherette upholstery.
Gift of Tetsuzo Inumaru.
1968-137-1-c

Horizontally rectangular carpet. Design consists of various Tetris block-like shapes interlaid against each other. Blocks are large and colored in brown, purple, red, and yellow. On both the left and right sides of the carpet are clusters of three red, vertically-rectangular lines overlaying the block shapes.

Carpet, 1929
hemp and wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut....
Lent by The Art Institute of Chicago, Royalties from The Warner Fund, 1987.21.
34.2016.8

Its dimensions are

Desk and Bookcase: 118.1 x 139.1 x 57.2 cm (46 1/2 x 54 3/4 x 22 1/2 in.) Chair: 76.52 x 47.63 x 44.45 cm (30 1/8 x 18 3/4 x 17 1/2 in.) Blotter: 56.2 x 42.55 cm (22 1/8 x 16 3/4 in.) -

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

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Accession Number 65.2016.5a/c
Object ID 907214281