Push Plate
Albert Paley
1981 · Bronze · Modern and Contemporary Art
Paley's push plate rivals Hector Guimard's turn-of-the-twentieth-century metalwork for its free-flowing exuberance. Like the French architect-designer, he used elaborately sinuous but durable metal detailing to embellish heavily trafficked commercial interiors; this piece, which attached to a glass door, comes from a restaurant in suburban Washington, D.C.
- Artist
- Albert Paley
- Date
- 1981
- Medium
- Bronze
- Department
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Clyde's of Tyson Corner Inc., 1981
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