This is a daybed with combination headboard and side panel shelf with multifunctional uses. The L-form headboard is made of plywood and tulip poplar, and includes various doors and storage compartments with a bookshelf in side panel. It has curved edges all around and sloping effect in the middle and on the side panel. The whole structure is mounted on an invisible tubular metal mattress support that pivots with an adjustable tubular metal and wood tray/reading stand mounted on side panel. The headboard is fitted with nickel-plated reading lamp on the top left with curved sheet metal shade on flexible metal neck.

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1933	Work on this object began.
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Daybed (USA)

This is a Daybed. It is dated 1933–1935 and we acquired it in 2014. Its medium is birch-faced plywood, tulip poplar, nickel-plated steel. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Commissioned for a domestic interior by textile designer Marguerita Mergentime, this daybed is a testament to architect-designer Kiesler’s landmark modern and functionalist style. One of two similar daybeds for the Mergentime commission, it is a transitional piece between sharp, geometric modernism and Kiesler’s later, highly organic biomorphic style. The daybed is devoted to utility, complete with bookshelves, drawers, or cabinets in each panel, a movable tray table and reading stand, and an overhead lamp.

This object was donated by Virginia Bayer. It is credited Gift of Virginia Bayer.

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

Drawing, Design for Daybed
graphite, color pencil on tracing paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
2003-15-12

Drawing, Design for Upholstered Daybed, George C. and Eleanor Hutton Rand Apartment, 46 Washington Mews, New York, NY

Drawing, Design for Upholstered Daybed, George C. and Eleanor Hutton Rand...
graphite on tracing paper.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-1911

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Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 96.5 × 116.8 × 127 cm (38 × 46 × 50 in.)

Cite this object as

Daybed (USA); birch-faced plywood, tulip poplar, nickel-plated steel; H x W x D: 96.5 × 116.8 × 127 cm (38 × 46 × 50 in.); Gift of Virginia Bayer; 2014-27-1-a/e

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/75k3R/
Accession Number 2014-27-1-a/e
Object ID 68743505