Alencon Model Shelf Clock, 1936
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The General Electric Company made this simple yet elegant clock in 1936. Designers of this Art Moderne style clock employed color, simple lines and geometric shapes (the arc, oval and circle) and used old materials in new ways (blue mirrored glass forms the body of the clock). This clock could have decorated many modern Americans' homes in the 1930s.
The General Electric Company made this simple yet elegant clock in 1936. Designers of this Art Moderne style clock employed color, simple lines and geometric shapes (the arc, oval and circle) and used old materials in new ways (blue mirrored glass forms the body of the clock). This clock could have decorated many modern Americans' homes in the 1930s.
Artifact
Clock
Date Made
1936
On Exhibit
at Henry Ford Museum in Clockwork
Object ID
79.93.3.2
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Jack Hasbrouck.
Material
Glass (Material)
Metal
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