Design for Telephone Booth
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
- 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
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1993-65-24
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq49c65d83b-7f2d-4db8-b776-891f9c3a8cd6
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