Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Black sedan with chromed grille, headlights, bumpers, running boards, window frames, and door handles; rubber tires with chromed hub caps; two spare tires mounted on either side, at front fenders. Model mounted on flat wooden base with metal plaque mounted at front. Removable plexiglass and wood cover fits on base.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Client
- Marmon Motor Car Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- Designer
- Walter Dorwin Teague, American, 1883 - 1960
- Walter Dorwin Teague, Jr., American, 1910–2004
- Fabricator
- Boucher, 1905 - 1935
- Date
- 1930
- Credit Line
- Gift of Walter Dorwin Teague, Jr.
- Medium
- lacquered wood, chrome-plated metal, rubber
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (on base): 29.5 x 35 x 101 cm (11 5/8 x 13 3/4 x 39 3/4 in.)
- H x W x D (model): 28 x 33 x 98 cm (11 in. x 13 in. x 38 9/16 in.)
- Type
- models and prototypes
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- automobile model
- Type
- automobile model
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