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Lot 10

Sale 5115 - Design
Oct 17, 2023 11:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$8,000 - 12,000

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Samuel Yellin, Two Doors for the J. Walter Thompson Office

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1927
Wrought iron
Comprised of two doors, one left-hinge and one right-hinge
The right-hinged door with integrated lock (no key present)
Designed for single-door installation in surrounding iron partition wall on pivoting hinges
Apparently unmarked
H: 83 1/2, W: 36 3/4, D: 2 3/8 in. (each, approximately)

Note
These doors, designed in 1927 for the J. Walter Thompson offices in the Graybar Building, New York, are represented in the Samuel Yellin Archive as Job No. 2660. The last image for the lot is an in-progress sketch of the present lot before the design was fully finalized, and has been reproduced here with permission from the Samuel Yellin Collection, Architectural Archives, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. This sketch is not included in the sale.

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