Object Details
- Designer
- Henry Dreyfuss , American, 1904 – 1972
- Henry Dreyfuss Associates
- Bell Telephone Laboratories, Washington, DC, USA
- Manufacturer
- Western Electric Manufacturing Company, USA, founded 1881
- Client
- AT&T
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- White plastic form consisting of oval body, the handset cradled horizontally across top above clear plastic rotary dial; white coiled cord on left connects handset to body.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Elaine Evans Dee
- Designed 1959; this example manufactured 1960
- Accession Number
- 1990-1-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- appliances & tools
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- telephone
- Type
- telephone
- Medium
- Molded plastic, metal
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 9.8 x 21 x 9 cm (3 7/8 x 8 1/4 x 3 9/16 in.)
- made in
- USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1990-1-1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4424955fe-f815-4404-920a-38d985e0df0e
