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Drawing, Design for a Mass-Operational House Designed by Hector Guimard, Chimney Support Construction

This is a Drawing. It was architect: Hector Guimard. It is dated October 1920 and we acquired it in 1956. Its medium is pen and black ink, graphite on tracing paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Madame Hector Guimard. It is credited Gift of Madame Hector Guimard.

  • Prototype, PolyBrick series
  • glazed ceramic, maltodextrin, alcohol.
  • Courtesy of Jenny Sabin Studio and Sabin Design Lab, Cornell Architecture.
  • 35.2015.4
  • Prototype, PolyBrick series
  • ceramic, maltodextrin, alcohol.
  • Courtesy of Jenny Sabin Studio and Sabin Design Lab, Cornell Architecture.
  • 35.2015.3a,b
  • Wall Maquette, PolyBrick series
  • ceramic, maltodextrin, alcohol.
  • Courtesy of Jenny Sabin Studio and Sabin Design Lab, Cornell Architecture.
  • 35.2015.2-1/36

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Its dimensions are

31.7 x 18.9 cm (12 1/2 x 7 7/16 in.), irregular

It is signed

Signed in black ink, lower right: Hector Guimard

It is inscribed

Inscribed in black ink, lower left: octobre 1920; upper margin: GARNITURE POUR SOUCHES DE CHEMINEE STANDARD

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Mass-Operational House Designed by Hector Guimard, Chimney Support Construction; Architect: Hector Guimard ((French, 1867–1942)); France; pen and black ink, graphite on tracing paper; 31.7 x 18.9 cm (12 1/2 x 7 7/16 in.), irregular; Gift of Madame Hector Guimard; 1956-78-1-46

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