Art Deco

Art Deco, short for the French Arts Décoratifs ("decorative arts"), and sometimes referred to simply as Deco[citation needed], is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.

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Tamara de Lempicka and Bernard Boutet de Monvel – two leading painters of the Jazz Age – depicted aristocrats, socialites and the nouveau ri

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Umberto Brunelleschi, Scheherazade, La Guirlande, 1920.

Scheherazade is a major female character and the storyteller in the frame narrative of the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the One Thousand and One Nights.

Created under the artistic direction of Umberto Brunelleschi (1879-1949), La Guirlande is one of the rarest of the Art Deco magazines. Early in his career, Brunelleschi produced fierce caricatures for L’assiette au beurre, a satirical weekly published in Paris from 1901 to 1914. He signed his drawings Aroun-Al-Raxid.

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Georges Lepape, Papiers à Lettres “Élite”, detail: Maquette for the Logo of the Élite Paper Company, 1925.

Although Georges Lepape came to be renowned for his fashion illustrations and magazine covers, and also produced posters, cards, costume and set designs for the theatre and advertisements, such as the present sheet. This drawing was used as a design for the trademark for a brand of writing paper produced in 1925 by the Élite Paper Company in France. This image was used as a maquette for a printed advertisement, as well as for the covers of the boxes in which the letter paper and envelopes were sold.

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Gustaf Tenggren, Blue Moon Silk Stockings, first published in 1925.

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George Barbier, Rendez-vous Villa Gori. Robe et manteau de Charles Frederick Worth (Robe and Coat of Charles Frederick Worth), detail, La Gazette du Bon Ton, 1924.

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Pierre Brissaud (1884-1964), Rentrons (Let's go Home!), Robe de Plage, de Gustave Beer (Dress for the beach, by Gustave Beer), A breezy, postwar day where stripes are worn, La Gazette du Bon Ton, May 1920.

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Madeleine Rueg, Allons au jardin. Robe d'après-midi, de Madeleine Vionnet (Let's go to the garden. Afternoon dress, by Madeleine Vionnet), detail, La Gazette du Bon ton, 1925.

For sale: Edition Originale

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Pierre Mourgue, Soir de Paris. Robe du soir, de Martial et Armand (Evening in Paris. Evening dress, by Martial and Armand), detail, Gazette du Bon Ton, 1922. 

For sale: Edition Originale

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Madame d’Ora (Dora Kallmus), Entertainer Josephine Baker, 1928.

Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. "I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad. And when I get mad, you know that I open my big mouth. And then look out, 'cause when Josephine opens her mouth, they hear it all over the world ..." – Josephine Baker

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Madame d'Ora (Dora Kallmus), Actress and dancer Elsie Altmann-Loos, 1922. Photostudio Setzer-Tschiedel, Vienna.

British Vogue

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Armand Vallée, A Quoi Pensent Les Jeunes Filles (What Do Young Girls Think), La Vie Parisienne, April 19, 1924.

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Lee Miller by Man Ray - 1930

Lee Miller by Man Ray - 1930

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Cornelia Vanderbilt, Wedding gown design by Farquharson & Wheelock, Biltmore House (Biltmore Estate), April 29, 1924.

The silk slipper-satin, long-sleeve sheath with lace tunic bridal confection was created by society designers Farquharson & Wheelock, two Scottish sisters in demand for their court presentation gowns as well, with ateliers in New York and Washington, D. C.

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Lissy Lindt, Photo by Atelier Manassé, Wien, 1930.

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George Barbier, L'Eau (Water) for Falbalas & Fanfreluches Almanach des Modes Prsentes Passes et Futures. 1924.

Hand-coloured, plate-signed pochoir from Falbalas & Fanfreluches: "Water", part of the "Four Elements" quatrain from Barbier's 1924 Almanac. "How far we have come" could be an apt subtitle with the revealing new bathing suits (or lack thereof), not to mention the streamlined turban, shown here midway in its evolution from Poiret's elaborate 1910-12 confection to the iconic flapper headband. The background reflection, so very stylized Art Nouveau in line, is a subtle reminder of the vast societal changes which transformed into the new permissive era over the span of a mere 20 years or so (reaching back to when the turn-of-the-century bathing costume was of serviceable and stout wool jersey, right down to the full-stockinged knees). This famous illustrated almanac series was produced from 1922 to 1926 only and depicted high-society life in Paris - the fashion, social and artistic capital of the early inter-war years. Each issue contained a small diary and notation section, an introduction by one of the leading social/cultural doyens of the day, a decorative cover and twelve fashion plates (one for each month of the year). (x)

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George Barbier, La Gourmandise (The Greedy). 1924

Hand-coloured, plate-signed pochoir from Falbalas & Fanfreluches: "The Gourmand/Gluttony" (The Greedy), part of the set "The Seven Deadly Sins " from the Almanac of 1925. One can nearly breathe in the heightened elegance not just through the elevated ceilings but in the exquisite dresses of the women waiting to be pampered beyond expectation with the best of French Cuisine. As is Barbier's inimitable style, the men are mere props to the confident curves of the New Woman, and from their take-charge poses we connect with the very tenor of their emerging social dominance and confidence. This famous series of illustrated almanacs was produced from 1922 to 1926 only and depicted high-society life in the fashion, social and artistic capital of the early inter-war years in Paris. Each issue contained a small diary and notation section, an introduction by one of the leading social/cultural doyens of the day, a decorative cover and twelve fashion plates (one for each month of the year). (x)

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George Barbier, El juicio de Paris (The Judgement of Paris). 1923.