Corner Cabinet design
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- Created Date
- 1940-1979
- Description
Is part of the W. Joseph Carr Collection, LaChance Library, Mount Wachusett Community College, Gardner, Massachusetts, http://www.mwcc.edu/Html/Library/index.html. For further information, see the Greater Gardner Furniture History Documentary Project website, http://www.mwcc.edu/gardnerfurniture/default.html.
A hand-drawn design by W. Joseph Carr of a Corner Cabinet, most likely for the Heywood-Wakefield Company. The drawing shows the forward view of a corner cabinet that was 40" wide and 74" high with an open middle shelf. The drawing is labeled "3 revised" and is stamped with a Joseph Carr Designer stamp. Joseph Carr was a noted furniture designer, artist, cartoonist and sculptor from Gardner, Massachusetts. He worked for the Heywood-Wakefield Company as a furniture designer from 1936 till the company closed its doors in 1979. He also did freelance furniture designs for a variety of furniture companies including S. Bent & Brothers, Inc.
- Creator
Carr, William Joseph, 1910-1999
- Partner
- Digital Commonwealth
- Contributing Institution
- Mount Wachusett Community College
- Collection
- W. Joseph Carr Collection
- Subjects
- Furniture design
Furniture--Drawings
Furniture designers
Furniture industry and trade--Massachusetts--Gardner - Type
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- DrawingsDesign drawings
- Language
- English
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- Chicago citation style
- Carr, William Joseph, 1910-1999. Corner Cabinet design. 1940-1979. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/bk129154z. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Carr, William Joseph, 1910-1999, (1940-1979) Corner Cabinet design. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/bk129154z
- MLA citation style
- Carr, William Joseph, 1910-1999. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/bk129154z>.