Sanitary slate fixtures
A 1910 trade catalogue issued by the Keenan Structural Slate Company, Inc. to present its sanitary slate fixtures to architects, builders and plumbing buyers. The pictures show dark slate toilet partitions, shower compartments, laundry trays and urinal or basin units, each photographed as a clean, isolated object against a plain ground. A designer might take from them the flat, panelled geometry of slate, the thin metal edge trim and the way plain sanitary fittings can read as modernist furniture.
