Samuel Yellin | People | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Samuel Yellin (1884-1940) was born in Mogilev-Podilsky (Ukraine region of the Russian Empire), immigrated to Philadelphia 1905 and died in Philadelphia.During the period 1915 to 1920 most of the things Yellin was making without commission, were for the forge, to show off to clients. Then, after, in 1920 to 1925, he was developing things for his home, After 1925 he was so busy with commissions that work made for the forge and home were radically curtailed. Very little elaborate work was made for the forge or his home in the 1930s during the depression, and when later in the 1930s he had to focus entirely on the National Cathedral in Wash DC, his largest commission.

We have 2 objects that Samuel Yellin has been involved with.

A wrought iron stand the size of a fireplace.See through in the middle, the iron is decorated into a repeated grid pattern of made of a square of curls with textured squares within the curls in the middle. Surrounded by a solid thick frame, it has an overall shape of a square refelecting the decorative motif. At the top two corners are two stylized creatures, with two curls on either side of each head. The two bottom feet look like two elongated, stylized feet.

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