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Design for Solar Energy Exhibit

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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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
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
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Record ID
chndm_1988-101-1611
Metadata Usage (text)
Not determined
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq400c60483-3e21-4110-913a-1e2d1cc71690

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