Coffeemaker Designer: Peter Schlumbohm (American, born Germany, 1896–1962)
Manufacturer: Chemex Corporation (American, founded 1939)

Designed 1938–43; manufactured and assembled from 1941; this example after 1946

American Decorative Arts

On view, 3rd floor, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design
Medium

Pyrex, cherry, and leather

Dimensions

11 5/16 × 6 3/4 in. (28.73 × 17.15 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Patricia E. Kane, Ph.D. 1987, and W. Scott Braznell, Art.A. 1967

Accession Number

1987.84.8a-c

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Thomas Minoru Kubota, New Haven, Conn., by 1987; given to W. Scott Braznell, New Haven, Conn., 1987
Bibliography
  • John Stuart Gordon, "Curator's Eye," Modern Magazine (Winter 2019), 50, ill
  • John Stuart Gordon, American Glass: The Collections at Yale (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2018), 246–47, no. 127
  • John Stuart Gordon et al., A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920–1950 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 274, no. 188
  • "Acquisitions 1985–1987," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 40, no. 2 (Spring 1988), 124
Object copyright
Copyright Artist/Estate/Foundation
In Copyright
Additional information

Marks

“CHEMEX ® / U.S. PATENTS / 2,241,368 / 2,411,340 / MADE IN USA / FROM / PYREX BRAND / GLASS,” etched on underside

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