Design for a Shopfront with Triangular Facade
Object Details
- Designer
- Kilemnik & Cia, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- At right, narrow doorway entrance beneath monumental, vertical architectural element (with long, central "stripe" of blue tile/glass/marble (?) embellishment) and semi-circular marquee. To left of door are empty windowed storefront vitrines, surmounted by stepped entablature. Within this vitrine area is a decorated central panel or door. Above the vitrine section and to the left of overdoor architectural element, are diagonal panels forming a trianglular-shaped cladding for the building. Pedestrians, rendered in blue watercolor, are at left of store window and to right of doorway. Image bordered by graphite framing lines.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Maureen Cogan
- ca. 1925
- Accession Number
- 1999-39-3
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Brush and white and beige gouache, blue and brown watercolor, graphite on green paperboard
- Dimensions
- 69.9 x 48.6 cm (27 1/2 x 19 1/8 in. )
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1999-39-3
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq401125ead-ad8c-4c57-b1d2-98d195d9bf34
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