About the Artwork
"Skyscraper" Vanity and Stool
ca. 1925
Paul Frankl
1886 - 1958
Austrian/american
Unknown
Lacquered and silvered wood, aluminum, mahogany, and mirror, brass
Overall (Vanity): 56 1/2 × 60 1/4 × 20 inches (143.5 × 153 × 50.8 cm) Overall (Stool): 27 1/2 × 18 × 19 inches (69.9 × 45.7 × 48.3 cm)
Furniture
American Art before 1950
Museum Purchase, American Art Deaccession Fund
2020.87
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(Skinner Auction House, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
2020-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Paul Frankl, "Skyscraper" Vanity and Stool, ca. 1925, lacquered and silvered wood, aluminum, mahogany, and mirror, brass. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, American Art Deaccession Fund, 2020.87.
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