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Design No. 1 of Sunbeam Toaster

Cooper Hewitt

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Object Details

Firm

Iannelli Studios Designers, Park Ridge, Illinois, USA

Designer

Alfonso Iannelli, Italian, active USA, 1888–1965

For

Sunbeam Corporation, Chicago, Illinois, USA, founded 1897

Catalogue Status

Research in Progress

Description

Design includes a frontal elevation on the left and a side elevation on the right of a toaster design for Sunbeam Corporation. The two toaster views are sketched in graphite, with small sections of orange added at the top. A few overlapping half-circles on the upper portion of the toaster can be seen on the frontal view, and a timer can be seen at the bottom of the side view.

Credit Line

Museum purchase from Friends of Drawings and Prints Fund

Date

October 1947

Accession Number

1994-104-1

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Type

industrial design

Object Name

Drawing

Type

Drawing

Medium

Graphite, brush and orange gouache on paper

Dimensions

33.3 × 77 cm (13 1/8 × 30 5/16 in.)

made in

Park Ridge, IL, 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/kq44e31c861-b6ce-4f2d-80c5-f320eea5abef

Record ID

chndm_1994-104-1

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