Cocktail Table, Model No. 5005 | Yale University Art Gallery

Designed 1949; manufactured 1950

This table embodies the sprawling horizontality seen in Paul T. Frankl's furniture designs after 1934, when he left New York for Southern California. In the postwar era, naturalism in the forms and materials of domestic furnishings was preferred by both designers and consumers in a reaction against Machine Age materials and their employment for waging war.

Medium: Mahogany, cork veneer, yellow-poplar, plywood, birch, and red gum laminates
Dimensions: 14 5/8 × 47 7/8 × 35 7/8 in. (37.148 × 121.603 × 91.123 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Loeb, LL.B. 1944
Accession Number: 1983.111
Geography: Made in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Designed in Los Angeles, California
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

Private collection, Hamden, Conn.; sold to Rhoda Loeb (1922 – 2022) and John E. Loeb (1919–2014), New Haven, later Branford, Conn., by 1982; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1983

Bibliography

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), 369, no. 259

David L. Barquist, Elisabeth Donaghy Garrett, and Gerald W. R. Ward, American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 14, 64, 94,98–99, no. 25, pl. 26, ill.

Elise K. Kenney, ed., Handbook of the Collections: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 98, ill.

"Acquisitions 1983," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 39, no. 2 (Fall 1984), 62

Object copyright

In Copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

cocktail tables

Marks

"5005 # 166" is stamped on the underside of the top. "JIII/P [0?] / 5005" in crayon on the underside of the top adjacent to three of the legs.

Inscriptions

"57" is inscribed in pencil on the underside of the top adjacent to three of the legs.

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