Some furniture pieces I’ve collected over the years. I’ve loved seeing the uptick in personal deco items on here! Cheers

Beautility bar cabinet

Strange curio cabinet- not sure if it was apart of a larger set before- see wood slats on the side? Maybe part of a prior shelving unit/built in?

Cobalt mirror coffee table

Cobalt mirror side table

Skyscraper cabinet

Mini waterfall wardrobe

Waterfall dresser turned tool chest (saved from the garbage bins)

Beat up nightstand turned junk stand/drawer lol

1980s stepped beveled mirror

Elsa Gertrue Tennhardt (c.1890-1980) was an artist and industrial designer who worked in USA. She was born around 1890 in Germany, and studied painting in Berlin before moving to New York in 1913. Shortly after arriving she attended the first worldwide Cubist exhibition with works of Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, and Henri Matisse at the New York's Armory Art Show with over 85,000 people in attendance, with inspired her greatly. She joined a New York artist community who taught her metalwork and welding, and supported herself by making silver cocktail shakers. In addition to her cocktail shakers, she also made silver plated vanity sets with modern looking hand mirrors, hairbrushes, cosmetic cases, and lipstick holders. After WWII she taught painting at the New York University art Department, and gave lectures on silver and design. She died in 1980 in Southampton, New York, USA. Her works are preserved in the permanent collections of major institutions, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and the Milwaukee Art Museum.

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The horse and fett are attached with bolts. I have changed the lamp part (it would not work today). The wiring was 50s 60s but could have been changed later. It has been repaired at some point and the marble shade has quite a few cracks. The only markings i could find was on the brass housing.

Any info is appreciated!

SOM’s post-modernist 1980s fling at Deco revival.

The incredible thing about Carvois is how painstakingly it has been restored, having been left to ruin after Nazis used it as a base in WW2. The Piscine is a gallery not far away in Roubaix, France.

u/rogerjcohen recently posted from here https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtDeco/s/M4zcfRXd7T but without the fabulous Eagle and Condor ladies.

I have been recently interested in Art Deco but I don't get why it was inspired by the Egyptian designs instead of other cultures like Mayan, Arabian etc

She’s an amazing example to behold.

We discovered this well-preserved Art Deco post office while visiting San Francisco last week. A beautiful surprise.

4000 Cathedral Avenue NW
“Westchester” Apartment House
Developer- Gustave Ring
Harvey Warwick Sr - Archt
1930
The immense scope intended for the Westchester was to have made it the largest apartment house south of New York, with eight buildings containing 23 million cubic feet and costing more than $10 million. The Depression, however, interrupted construction and only four buildings were built. The original plans called for more than 1000 apartments. The unbuilt main building was to have a ballroom, a public dining room, rooftop swimming pool , gym and a theater. The buildings facades are covered in tapestry brick and full limestone detailing. The site was home to a holding pen for cattle and then a girls’ finishing school before the apartments were built.
When the buildings were filled it was home to 1,800 residents, 700 non resident servants and a staff of 135. The Westchester once housed many distinguished residents ,and during WWII ,2 cabinet members, 31 Congressmen, 12 senators and 14 judges lived there. The buildings were owned by the Dutch government, who bought it in 1937. The gates are not original to the building but are from Copped Hall in England, which was destroyed by the Nazis. In very complicated terms, the buildings became a coop , but failure of the residents to buy the vacant 16 acres of land on the site resulted in its sale and construction of later apartment buildings. Three more apartment houses now occupied the once vacant 16 acres.

apparently now it’s a westin hotel