Casa-1984
Douglas Navarra
Decorative Arts and Design
On View: Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
MEDIUM
Plate glass, Vitrolite, steel, brass
DATES
ca. 1984
DIMENSIONS
30 x 9 x 9 in. (76.2 x 22.9 x 22.9 cm)
MARKINGS
Seemingly unmarked.
ACCESSION NUMBER
2008.88
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Shaill Jhaveri
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Postmodern architectural tower. Central core: tall, thin vitrilite rectangular form, with pale green and pink horizontal stripes, encased at top and bottom by cast steel, openwork, geometric, grid like square fastened by gold colored rivets. Central core surmounted by four applied, openwork, trellis style sides and thick tinted plate glass panels fastened with squared and pointed gold colored caps. Tower capped at top and bottom with symmetrical horizontal plate glass panel. At top: short, metal support with a thinner overhanging glass plate, surmounted by small, square metal cap with flattened rectangular finial, flanked by four canted narrow forms.On lower section is a metal plate with four canted short feet.
Condition: very good.
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