Collection Highlights
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1916-1922
1954.164
Painted plaster
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Ashtray
Object name
Ashtray
Date
ca. 1990
Medium
Stainless steel
Dimensions
Overall: 2 3/4 x 4 3/4 x 4 3/8 in. ( 7 x 12.1 x 11.1 cm )
Description
Polished stainless steel ashtray in two pieces; circular bowl on flattened tripod base; lid with circular opening for ashes; cigarette rest attached to lid, overhanging opening and side of bowl.
Credit Line
Gift of Graydon Carter, Editor, Vanity Fair
Object Number
2004.22
Marks
stamp: on side of bowl: around perimeter of double circle, with linear design inside, "bauhaus / original / modell"
stamp: on side of bowl: "...(illeg.) / ALESSI / INOX 18/10 / ITALY"
Gallery Label
This ashtray, designed by Bauhaus metal designer Marianne Brandt in 1924 and reproduced by the Italian firm Alessi, was purchased by Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter for his office. In 2003, Carter received a summons under the city's new antismoking regulations for having this unused ashtray visible in his Times Square Office.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
