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Accession # 2008.88
Artist Douglas Navarra
Title Casa-1984
Date ca. 1984
Medium Plate glass, Vitrolite, steel, brass
Dimensions 30 x 9 x 9 in. (76.2 x 22.9 x 22.9 cm)
Marks Seemingly unmarked.
Credit Line Gift of Shaill Jhaveri
Location Visible Storage: Case 8, Shelf E (Contemporary Furniture)
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.