-
Period: to
Art Deco
The Art Deco time period arrives on the scene in the 1920s, flourishes during the 30s and 40s and begins to wane after world war II. -
The Great Gatsby
The cover of The Great Gatsby is among the most celebrated pieces of art in American literature.[10] It depicts disembodied eyes and a mouth over a blue skyline, with images of naked women reflected in the irises. A little-known artist named Francis Cugat was commissioned to illustrate the book while Fitzgerald was in the midst of writing it. The cover was completed before the novel; Fitzgerald was so enamored of it that he told his publisher he had "written it into" the novel. -
Perfume and Powder Set
These pieces have functionality and form. -
Pomone Pavilion
Louis Hippolyte Boileau architecture. -
Metropolis Film
Silent film directed by Fritz Lang. The geometic adn futuristic themes that pervade the Art Deco scene also can be found in the film and film art work. -
Charles Schneider-Poissons Grand Vase
Schneider's works feature bright colors and intriguing shapes in forms both natural and abstract. The piece shown above is the 1927 Poissons Grand Vase. The clear bubbled glass vase with an acid-etched pattern of fish swimming among reeds has powder inclusions in blue overlaid in orange tango to green for a unique multi-dimensional effect. It is from the Le Verre Francais line and is the largest piece Valerio Antiques has seen in the 25+ years they've been in business and it has yet to be illust -
Vogue Perfume
Vogue Perfume, 1927 Art Deco poster by Jupp Wiertz for the German scent, The Perfume for This Winter. -
The Torch
This ceramic vase, designed by Frank Ferrell, for the Roseville Pottery Company in 1928 for their “Futura” line. The futuristic design aestetic is clearly apperent in this ceramic piece. -
Finale Figural Group
In short, Chiparus’ women were no shrinking violets with books in their hands; rather his sculptures were definitely bright, energetic and decorative. Whether you have ever heard of Chiparus before, or not, his works combined the elegance and luxury that still sum up the spirit of the Art Deco for us. -
The Musician
Oil on Canvass created by Tamera de Lempicka. -
Chrysler Building
The Chrysler Building was constructed in the art deco style and was considered the world's tallest building for 11 months until the Empire State building was erected. It is still considered the worlds tallest brick structure even though it is built around a steel frame. -
Rose Iron Works Lamp
Created by famed designer Viktor Schreckengost. -
Paramount Theater
The Paramount Theater is located in Aroura, Il. It was comissioned in 1930 and built in the Art Deco style by Rapp and Rapp. This building caputes, for me, the aestetic emotion that Bell writes about prolifically. -
English Muffineer
This stunning muffineer is a rare piece of Art Deco silver made at the height of the Great Depression. Its geometric design is architectural, bold and exciting. Of tapered octagonal paneled form, this caster rests on four geometrically stepped feet, each with triangular knees attaching to a panel. This triangular motif is continued around the neck of the top. The neck protrudes over the paneled sides playing with our sense of depth. The triangular devices are actually two triangles on top of eac -
Desoto Airflow
-
Buthaud Ceramic Vase
Rene Buthaud trained at l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux. In 1919, after establishing himself as a ceramics "dabbler", painter and engraver working in the academic style, he began to devote most of his time to ceramics. Buthaud favored stylized, firmly-outlined foliage and female nudes presented in vivid jazz-age colors. He also incorporated primitive, classical, and naturalistic themes into his work, always simplifying and streamlining. -
Phoneix Glass
This gorgeous Phoenix Sculptured Artware "Wild Rose" vase features elegant rambling blooms and buds, with a delicate ivory yellow wash over pearlized milk glass. -
Golden Gate Bridge
This bridge has the marings of classic art deco style in its futuristic and geometirc construction. -
Art Deco Furniture
Early in the Art Deco movement opulence was the foremost trait of furniture. Objects were designed as pieces of art as well as being functional. By the mid-1920s however the designs became more geometric and streamlined as the popularity of elegant and flamboyant furniture was declining. The Art Deco furniture started using new materials like chrome, aluminium, metals and glass. -
A Sesta: Charcoal on Paper
This exhibition of Art Deco in Portugal provides an opportunity for an innovative reappraisal of Portuguese modernism and its domination by this style, which spread from its origins in design to the so-called major forms of artistic expression, such as painting, sculpture and architecture, as well as to graphic design, advertising, scenography, cinema, the decorative arts and, finally, to daily life itself, with its modern aspirations for cosmopolitanism and happiness. -
Harper's Bazaar
This is the cover of Harper’s Bazaar, September 15th, 1939. the cover is by A.M. Cassandre. Cassandre is considered maybe the high point of ‘high’ art deco graphic design.
