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Last updated 12/7/2025

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Wall Mounted Designs
 
This page is being used to collect information about the history of Wall Mounted Designs, which are usually pockets or shelves. Please contact me if you know any of this information is incorrect or if you have any other information that should be added. Thank you.

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The Wall Pocket - 1876 onwards

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The Shelf - 1932 onwards

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Le Porte-Allumettes - 1932

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1940

'At Home Tonight' by Herbert McKay, which was published by Oxford University Press in London, New York and Toronto in 1940, contains diagrams for 'A Tidy', intended to be fixed to a wall with a drawing pin.

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1951

A design for a 'Repisa Rinconera' (Corner Shelf) appears in Plegado laminas published by Della Penna, April 1951.

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