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Design for Telephone Booth

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    Object Details

    Designer

    Henry Dreyfuss , American, 1904 – 1972

    Client

    Bell Telephone Laboratories, Washington, DC, USA

    Catalogue Status

    Research in Progress

    Description

    On cream paper, design for a telephone booth in three-quarter view on a diagonal. On three walls, square windows bordered in blue; the opening for entry on the fourth wall; a red rectangular adjacent pillar with the Bell Telephone logo in blue and the word "PHONE" written vertically and horizontally in white. Throughout, measurements, notations, and variations of the phone booth plan in brown color pencil and graphite.

    Credit Line

    Gift of John Bruce

    Date

    ca. 1950–60

    Accession Number

    1993-65-24

    Restrictions & Rights

    Usage conditions apply

    Type

    industrial design

    Object Name

    Drawing

    Type

    Drawing

    Medium

    Chalk, graphite, color pencil on yellow tracing paper

    Dimensions

    42.5 × 35.2 cm (16 3/4 × 13 7/8 in.)

    made in

    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/kq49c65d83b-7f2d-4db8-b776-891f9c3a8cd6

    Record ID

    chndm_1993-65-24

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