Gun Turret Seat
1939 · "Structomold" (plastic-impregnated laminated paper)
5 1/4 x 18 5/16 x 13" (13.3 x 46.5 x 33 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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McDonnell Aircraft Corp., St. Louis, MO
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1944
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McDonnell Aircraft Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer founded in St. Louis in 1939. Though primarily a defense contractor, the company's design and engineering output shaped postwar American visual culture through sleek, futuristic aircraft forms and technological aesthetics. Its formal vocabulary of streamlined fuselages, swept wings, and metallic surfaces became visual templates for mid-century modernism across industrial and consumer design.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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