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Design for Solar Energy Exhibit

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    Object Details

    Office of

    Donald Deskey Associates, New York, New York, USA

    Project Head

    George Levaras

    Draftsman

    Deller

    Catalogue Status

    Research in Progress

    Description

    Design for solar energy exhibit. Interior perspective shows open-plan exhibition space with curving ramp, at rear, providing access to mezzanine level. Interior architecture is white, International Style, with white pavement and brown-black walls and ceiling. At center, large installation of teal- and rust-colored panels with information plaques at angle on ground. At center in background, floor-to-ceiling installation of orange and yellow material or light that meets rectangular yellow plan on ceiling (nearby, a similar red and black panel). At left, wall obscured by additional teal-blue panel, and a satellite seems to be suspended from ceiling; in midground, a satellite dish is propped up for display. At right, under the mezzanine, various exhibit display panels—in various hues of red, orange, teal, yellow, and black, some with text and some without—are supported by linear tubing system. Human figures populate the scene throughout. Signed in pen and ink, lower right: DELLER ’60.

    Credit Line

    Gift of Donald Deskey

    Date

    1960

    Accession Number

    1988-101-1611

    Restrictions & Rights

    Usage conditions apply

    Type

    industrial design

    Object Name

    Drawing

    Type

    Drawing

    Medium

    Brush and gouache, pen and ink on illustration board

    Dimensions

    50.4 x 75.9 cm (19 13/16 x 29 7/8 in.)

    made in

    New York, NY, USA

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    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
    Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department

    Data Source

    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

    Metadata Usage

    Not determined

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq400c60483-3e21-4110-913a-1e2d1cc71690

    Record ID

    chndm_1988-101-1611

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