r/ArtDeco

Rose Iron Works is a great example of how Art Deco moved beyond buildings and posters into decorative metalwork. I liked this piece because the geometric structure, clean symmetry, and crafted iron details give it that machine-age Art Deco feeling while still looking handmade. It feels functional, but also very ornamental in the way Art Deco objects often were.

From a recent visit by the Art Deco Society of New York

Can someone give me more info and translation

Eva-Lisa Saarinen-Swanson, known as Pipsan Saarinen-Swanson, (1905-1979) was a Finnish industrial, interior, and textile designer who worked in USA. She was daughter of textile artist and sculptor Loja Gesellius-Saarinen and architect Eliel Saarinen. She studied weaving, ceramics, and fabric design at the Atheneum Art School and the University of Helsinki. She was known for her contemporary furniture, textile, and product designs. During her long and successful career she designed furniture, woven and printed textiles, clothing, metalwork, glass and interiors. She developed designs that could be mass-produced, in a sense offering the Cranbrook model to the general public. She also taught class on contemporary furniture design at Cranbrook.

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Elsa Gertrue Tennhardt 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.

Clarice Cliff (1899-1972) was a British ceramicist and industrial designer. Born into a poor family of an ironmonger and a laundress, she started working at the pottery factory at the age of 13. She learned painting and design her aunt, who was a hand-painter. Relocating to another factory at 18, she rose up the ranks, till she become the head of factory creative department. Her designs were extremly popular in 1930s. She become one of the UK's most prolific and important ceramicists. During World War II only plain white pottery was permitted under wartime regulations, so she assisted with management of the pottery but was not able to continue design work. After the war she designed less as before and worked in managment of the factory and latter retired.

One of plates manufacteded after her Bizarre design is in Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.

Stoked on this find. Curious if anyone knows anything about it- base looks original- the shade although is questionable? Not sure. The base is signed JC or maybe TC something- hoping someone recognizes the makers mark. Looks similar to a lamp by “Charles Ranc”- guessing different casting houses/manufactures did spin offs of his designs. Love knowing the history of the pieces I collect so if anyone has any expertise I’d be delighted to hear! Cheers