Deco Darling

.Australia. Lover of all things Edwardian & Art Deco. This blog is a collection of personal style posts and vintage images that I love. For more fashion posts visit my 20s & 30s blog www.harlowdarling.com

[mishflora]

Tangee Lipstick Advertisement Photoplay, October 1929

[kayflapper]

Miss Josephine Baker, c. 1928.

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French Art Deco bakelite desk set, circa 1930.

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Vintage flapper fashion illustrations (1925-1932) from the Ukrainian women's magazine, Нова хата. Published in Lviv.

Source: Internet Archive.

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art deco green celluloid dresser set

[gacougnol]

Madame Yevonde

Olga Burnett (née Herard) as Persephone

1935

[decodarling]

Lilyan Tashman in the perfume bottle costume designed by Erté for the lost silent film “Bright Lights” MGM (1925).

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Dancer Ossi Rhondje, 1929

Photoatelier Feldscharek :: Die Tänzerin Ossi Rhondje. Die Bühne 1929, Heft 235, Seite 39. | From the photo studio Feldscharek. The dancer Ossi Rhondje. Die Bühne (The Stage) 1929, issue 235, page 39. | src ÖNB

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[centuriespast]

Paper Moon Portrait of a Young Woman, American, 1917 or later Gelatin silver print on card stock. Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive.

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Gerda Wegener (Danish, 1885–1940) A Johan Sebastian Bach humblement signed, dated and titled 'GERDA. WEGENER/ PARIS 1936/ A Johan Sebastian Bach/ humblement' (lower right) oil on canvas 39 3/8 x 31 5/8 in.

She met fellow artist Lili Elbe – then known as Einar Wegener – at art school. They married in 1904, when Gerda was 18 and Lili was 22. They travelled through Italy and France, eventually settling in Paris in 1912. The couple immersed themselves in the Bohemian lifestyle of the time, befriending many artists, dancers and other figures from the artistic world, often attending carnivals and other public festivals.

During this time Elbe began to wear female clothing, and adopted her female name and persona, becoming Gerda Wegener's favorite model, in paintings of beautiful women with haunting almond-shaped eyes dressed in chic fashions. In 1913, the art world was shocked when they learned that the model who had inspired her depictions of petite femmes fatales was in fact her husband.

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Olaf Eriksson - Växthus, 1912-1939

[marypickfords]

The Song of the Scarlet Flower (Teuvo Tulio, 1938)

[dame-de-pique]

Ralph L. Wilson - Stemorsblomster, 1910

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Dracula (1931)

[decodarling]

1924 Rene Lalique opalescent frosted and stained glass Ceylan vase.

[decodarling]

Suzy Solidor with her dog 1930 by Laure Albin- Guillot.