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Thérèse Normandie-inspired World Congress Rhode Island www.chicagoartdecosociety.com IN THIS ISSUE Bonney Great Room in Deco IN THIS ISSUE spring 2015 FEATURE ARTICLES Faire du Lèche-Vitrines (or Licking the Windows) By Lisa Schlansker Kolosek ...... 9 A Look Inside . . . Kem Weber, Designer and Architect Reviewed by Bennett Johnson...... 12 A Great SS Normandie Room in Chicago By Rolf Achilles ...... 14 A Look Inside . . . French Reviewed by Linda Levendusky...... 16 Digital Deco ...... 19 Shanghai Art Deco: So Far Away—and Yet So Close By Tina Kanagaratnam and Wm. Patrick Cranley ...... 22 Art Deco in Little Rhode Island By Jeffrey A. Amelse and Frances J. Donovan ...... 26 Wilfredo in the Windy City By Kathleen Murphy Skolnik...... 30 REGULAR FEATURES President’s Message ...... 3 Deco Spotlight ...... 4 Art Deco at Auction ...... 6 CADS Recap...... 8 Looking Back . . . To Move Ahead By Ruth Dearborn...... 32

1 CADS Board of Directors Custom Fine Jewelry and Adaptation of Historic Designs Mark Allen G. Garzon President Amy Keller Executive Vice PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE President A percentage of all sales Susanne Petersson Secretary Mary Miller Treasurer Mention this ad! Joe Loundy President Emeritus Ruth Dearborn Ann Marie Del Monico Dear CADS Members, Steve Hickson Kevin Palmer Several changes have occurred in our organization since the Fall 2014 issue of CADS Magazine. Ringing Best Friends Glenn Rogers in 2015, we’ve already had huge successes, especially concerning the Partners in Preservation alliance Diamonds & Gems between Chicago and Camagüey, Cuba. Special thanks to both Kathleen Murphy Skolnik and Joe Loundy CADS Advisory Board for shepherding the entire process, which you can read about in this issue. The Chicago Motor Club is Conrad Miczko Chair well on its way to completion with plenty of oversight from Board member and Preservation Chair Amy CADS Member Bill Sandstrom “HOT” Pendant Marie Sandstrom Karla Lewis, GG, AJP, (GIA) Web Master Joe Loundy, our hardworking, dedicated, generous, and ever-kind president, has decided to step down By Appointment after eight incredible years of service. Eran Miller 29 East Madison, Chicago The membership had a chance to thank Joe and acknowledge the monumental achievements of his CADS Magazine 312-269-9999 tenure through the creation of the Loundy Award, recognizing and honoring people and organizations Engagement Rings, Editor that exemplify the preservation of our inter-war era structures and objects. Joe’s leadership carried Kathleen Murphy Skolnik @bestfriendsdiamonds.com Diamond Jewelry, CADS from an organization that was about to shut its proverbial doors to a thriving group of active bestfriendsdiamonds.com South Sea Cultured Pearl Graphic Designer members known for preservation, education, and social events. I could go on and on about Joe, but this Erika Nygaard Jewelry and Strands. issue just doesn’t have enough pages! So with happy sentiments, we the members congratulate Joe on his Contributors amazing work. While he might not be president going forward, Joe will still be on the Board and have the Custom Designs. Rolf Achilles honorary title of president emeritus. Jeffrey A. Amelse “HOT” Hoops Deco Eternity Band Who will be taking over for Joe? Well, that’s me—Mark Allen Garzon. I’m a licensed architect and co- Wm. Patrick Cranley Ruth Dearborn founder of MGLM Architects and Interiors along with three college friends. Our practice concentrates Frances J. Donovan on historic design and preservation. A few years ago, I researched volunteer opportunities with groups Bennett Johnson interested in preservation and came across the Chicago Art Deco Society. A short correspondence Join or Renew Today Tina Kanagaratnam followed and soon I was chatting with Joe Loundy and Keith Bringe over dinner. We immediately Lisa Schlansker Kolosek connected and before long I was hooked. Attending one event after another, I learned about so many Linda Levendusky nuanced aspects of the Art Deco time period, its aesthetic, and the characters that populated a glorious ABOUT CADS ______Individual $45 Copy Editor/Proofreader The Chicago Art Deco Society (“CADS”) is a community of members that celebrates passionate and willing to share their respective interests. The Chicago Art ______Household (Dual) $55 Linda Levendusky Deco Society (CADS) unique aesthetic of the Interwar Period including fine and , architecture is a not-for-profit and fashion that defined the elegant Art Deco and era. CADS was ______Student with Valid Photo ID $25 (email communications only) Advertising Sales It was early last year after a Board meeting that Joe asked if I would consider replacing him as president. 501(c)3 tax exempt founded in 1982 as a non-profit organization with a mission of education, preservation Ann Marie Del Monico organization chartered ______Friend $100 and fellowship. are quite extensive. Since then, we have worked together to craft a more solid focus, activating in the state of illinois CADS members develop their knowledge, make connections, and get involved to in 1982 for the ______Patron $250 Front cover: CADS committees and encouraging Board members and volunteers to develop and give back to the save historic structures through our advocacy and education programs. When you purpose of education, ______Benefactor $500 Great Room, Richard H. Driehaus organization. Measuring the involvement and quality of our programming, it’s clear we are not only preservation and join CADS you’ll meet fellow enthusiasts and experts, receive unique benefits, continue residence, Chicago. fellowship. learning, and play a meaningful part in preserving our Art Deco heritage. ______Deco Circle $1000 Photo by John Faier. LEARN ______Corporate $500 As incoming president, it will be my task to further the already established initiatives of CADS. These With membership you will receive the highly respected Chicago Art Deco Magazine. (Includes a quarter page sized advertisement in two issues of CADS Magazine © Copyright Chicago Art Deco Society 2015 include a continued emphasis on preservation, education, community, the book project, the survey All material is subject to copyright and cannot and a link to your business website from chicagoartdecosociety.com). Richly illustrated and loaded with topical articles, special features and a calendar of be reproduced without prior written permission project, the magazine, and, above all, engagement with the membership, new and established. international art deco events & book reviews. Chicago Art Deco Magazine has become from the publisher. a collectible in its own right. NAME(s) ______These are not small undertakings. Going forward as president, and with the continued commitment of the Board, committees, and volunteers, I hope to further develop those organizational traits essential ENJOY STREET ______for generating a vibrant and increased membership, shared interests, and, above all, connections with Exclusive access to fabulous buildings, private collections and exciting events including tours and lectures featuring expert speakers and authors. each and every one of you so that collectively we can become the premier organization for Art Deco CITY/STATE ______THE CHICAGO ART DECO SOCIETY (CADS) IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT 501(C)3 TAX EXEMPT in Chicago and throughout the world. ORGANIZATION CHARTERED IN THE STATE Your membership supports historic preservation programs including the Chicago Art ZIP ______PHONE ______OF ILLINOIS IN 1982 FOR THE PURPOSE OF Deco Survey. EDUCATION, PRESERVATION AND FELLOWSHIP. Thank you, EMAIL ______EXPERIENCE As a member, you’ll have the opportunity to meet and discuss your favorite aspect of Make checks payable to: Chicago Art Deco Society Art Deco with over 500 associates from across the United States. Mail to: Chicago Art Deco Society, PO Box 1116 P.O. Box 1116 Evanston, IL 60204-1116 Evanston, IL 60204-1116 312-280-9097 Mark Allen G. Garzon chicagoartdecosociety.com

2 Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine Spring 2015 3 DECO SPOTLIGHT DECO SPOTLIGHT Exhibitions, tours, lectures & special events of interest to Art Deco enthusiasts Exhibitions, tours, lectures & special events of interest to Art Deco enthusiasts

ONGOING Guided Art Deco Walking, Bus, Thru August 31 May 22–Summer 2016 September 12–20 October 18–January 3, 2016 Bike, and Vintage Car Tours Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Raising the Curtain: Picasso’s Tour: The Art of Craft: , Art for the People: Carl Peters and America on the Move Self-guided Art Deco Walking Modernist Painting for the Ballet Le Tricorne Art Deco and Modernism in the Rochester WPA Murals National Museum of American and Driving Tours Chicago Cultural Center New York Historical Society and Brussels Memorial Art Gallery of the History, Washington, DC Art Deco Trust, Napier, Chicago, IL New York, NY Travel Wright, Frank Lloyd University of Rochester americanhistory.si.edu New Zealand cityofchicago.org/city/en/ nyhistory.org/212-873-3400 Wright Trust Rochester, NY artdeconapier.com 202-633-1000 depts/dca/supp_info/chicago_ May 23 travelwright.org/312-994-4000 mag.rochester.edu +64 6 835 0022 Art and Design in the Modern Age: culturalcenter.html/ Art Deco Preservation Ball September 13 585-276-8900 Selections from the Wolfsonian 312-744-3315 Art Deco Society of California IN PROGRESS Gatsby Summer Afternoon October 23–March 20, 2016 Collection Thru September 7 San Francisco, CA Art Deco Society of California Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty The Wolfsonian, Miami Beach, FL Thru May 3 One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s artdecosociety.org/415-982-3326 San Francisco, CA Smithsonian American Art wolfsonian.org/305-531-1001 The Architectural Image, 1920–1950 Migration Series and Other Works June 2–November 1 artdecosociety.org/415-982-3326 Museum, Washington, DC The Art of J. C. Leyendecker: National Building Museum Museum of Modern Art The Private Josef Hoffmann September 26–May 13, 2016 americanart.si.edu/202-633-7970 New York, NY Selections from The Haggin Washington, DC Josef Hoffmann Museum Seven Masters: 20th-Century October 24–January 31, 2016 moma.org/212-708-9400 Museum Collection nbm.org/202-272-2448 Brtnice, Czech Republic Japanese Woodblock Prints from 1920s Modernism: Montreal’s The Haggin Museum Thru May 17 Thru September 13 mak.at/+420 724 543 722 the Wells Collection Beaver Hall Group Stockton, CA American Moderns, 1910–1960: Dolce Vita? Italian Decorative Art June 3 Minneapolis Institute of Arts Montreal Museum of Fine Arts hagginmuseum.org/209-940-6300 From O’Keeffe to Rockwell 1900–1940, from the Liberty to Downtown Deco Walking Tour Minneapolis, MN Montreal, Quebec, Canada A Long-Awaited Tribute: Frank Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Industrial Design Art Deco Society of New York artsmia.org/888-642-2787 mbam.qc.ca/514-285-2000 Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France Lloyd Wright’s Usonian House joslyn.org/402-342-3300 New York, NY October 4–January 17, 2016 October 28–November 1 musee-orsay.fr/en and Pavilion Paul Poiret, Evening Coat (fur-trimmed), c. 1922. artdeco.org/212-679-3326 New Objectivity: Modern German Pre-Congress Program, Thru May 31 +33 (0)1 40 49 48 14 Guggenheim, New York, NY Eldzier Cortor Coming Home: Paul Poiret, Evening Coat (green), c. 1925. June 5–September 27 Art in the Weimar Republic, Beijing, China guggenheim.org/new-york 1919–1933 Recent Gifts to the Art Institute Gifts of the estate of Mrs. Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt Gerry. COMING IN 2015 Black Mountain: An Interdisciplinary November 1–6 212-423-3575 Art Institute of Chicago Experiment 1933–1957 Los Angeles County Museum 13th World Congress on Art Deco These dazzling garments are among the fashions dating from the Downtown Deco, Chicago Board Chicago, IL May 8–August 16 Museum für Gegenwart of Art Shanghai, China of Trade, and Merchandise Mart artic.edu/312-443-3600 early 1920s through the 1930s featured in Golden Glamour: The Lee Miller , Germany Los Angeles, CA November 7–10 lacma.org/323-857-6000 Post-Congress Program Walking Tours Thru May 31 Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt Gerry Collection, on view at the Rhode Albertina, Vienna, Austria smb.museum Nanjing, China Riverfront Deco: A Walking and Coney Island: Visions of an Island School of Design Museum through July 5. The exhibition albertina.at/+43 1 534 83-0 +49(0)30/266424242 October 9–January 17, 2016 shanghaiartdeco.net Trolley Tour American Dreamland, 1861–2008 offers an intimate peek into the wardrobe of this American May 13 June 17 Jacob Lawrence’s Paintings of the Chicago Architecture Foundation Wadsworth Atheneum Museum philanthropist and Rhode Island native. Curator’s Tour: Inside View of Saving Film Screening: Enough to Live On: Hero of Haiti November 6–March 19, 2016 architecture.org/312-922-3432 of Art, Hartford, CT Place: 50 Years of The Arts of the WPA Taft Museum of Art Jazz: Through the Lens of Cincinnati Union Terminal thewadsworth.org/860-278-2670 Landmarks Smithsonian American Art Cincinnati, OH Herman Leonard taftmuseum.org/513-241-0343 Brigham Young University Rotunda Tours Thru June 11 Thru July 5 Thru July 26 Museum of the City of New York Museum, Washington, DC Museum of Art Cincinnati History Museum Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art Golden Glamour: The Edith The Rise of American Modernism New York, NY americanart.si.edu/202-633-7970 October 13–June 24, 2016 Provo, UT Cincinnati, OH and the Birth of American Television Stuyvesant Vanderbilt Gerry Indianapolis Museum of Art Art Deco Society of New York Who’s Afraid of Women artdeco.org/212-679-3326 September 4–January 10, 2016 moa.byu.edu/801-422-8287 cincymuseum.org/513-287-7031 Smart Museum of Art Collection Indianapolis, IN Lyonel Feininger and Alfred Kubin: Photographers? Art Deco Walking Tours of Chicago, IL Rhode Island School of imamuseum.org/317-923-1331 May 14 A Friendship of Artists Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France musee-orsay.fr/en Los Angeles and Union Station Tours smartmuseum.uchicago.edu Design Museum Thru July 31, 2016 World Film Premiere: Enough to Albertina, Vienna, Austria +33 (0)1 40 49 48 14 The J. Paul Ge Los Angeles Conservancy 773-702-0200 Providence, RI Machines for Living Live On: The Arts of the WPA albertina.at/+43 1 534 83-0 Los Angeles CA Thru June 21 risdmuseum.org/401-454-6500 Minneapolis Institute of Arts, New Britain Museum of laconservancy.org/213-623-2489 Helen Levitt in the Street Thru July 12 Wells Fargo Center American Art New Britain, CT San Francisco Walking Tours: High Museum of Art Helena Rubinstein: Beauty is Power Minneapolis, MN nbmaa.org/860-229-0257 T

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Downtown Deco, Art Deco Marina, y M Coit Tower Murals, Controversial high.org/404-733-4444 Boca Raton, FL May 16 Thru August 21 useu Murals of Rincon Center, Thru June 21 bocamuseum.org/561-392-2500 Life and Style in the Age of Art Deco Walk Wright In ringl + pit, Hut und Handschuhe Diego Rivera Mural at City College All the Rage in Paris Thru July 12 SFO Museum, San Francisco Wright Plus™ Architectural M (Hat and Gloves), 1930, gelatin silver print. , Housewalk l San Francisco City Guides Design, Fashion, Theatre Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo International Airport, o Frank Lloyd Wright Trust s sfcityguides.org/415-557-4266 McNay Art Museum in Detroit United Airlines Terminal 3 Grete Stern met Ellen Auerbach in the studio of Walter a Oak Park, IL n San Antonio, TX Detroit Institute of Arts San Francisco, CA Peterhans, where she was taking private classes. The two G Miami Beach Art Deco District e

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Pair of armchairs, nique Art Deco designs from two important private collections Christie’s 20/21 Design sale on December 9 included the Art model MF 172, U highlighted December auctions at the New York showrooms Deco collection of Marsha Miro, former art critic for the Detroit Macassar ebony, of Sotheby’s and Christie’s. Free Press, architectural historian at Cranbrook, and founding direc- lacquered wood, Masterworks spanning the last hundred years from such tor of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit where and fabric upholstery, renowned designers as Adolf Loos, Gustav Stickley, Frank Lloyd she is currently Board president. Te Miro collection included a Pierre Chareau, circa 1920. Wright, , Oscar Niemeyer, and Zaha Hadid sold for more three-piece palmwood dining room suite—sideboard, table, and than $7 million at Sotheby’s Important 20th Century Design auction six chairs—designed by Printz, circa 1928, for a private client on December 17. Te sale opened with a private collection of forty- referred to as “Madame M.” Sales of the three pieces totaled nearly Rare “Etoile” sideboard, three iconic French Art Deco and postwar designs from a Sydney, and oak, Jean Royère, circa 1955. $1.2 million. Te unique asymmetrical sideboard with its stepped Console table, Australia interior created by internationally acclaimed architect drawers tapering to the foor like an inverted pyramid drew the parchment, cerused Alan Wanzenberg. Te collection drew $3,310,625, far above highest bid of the three, selling for $965,000, well above the pre-sale oak, and patinated the upper estimate of $1.9 million. It came from Uig estimate of $300,000 to $500,000. Te sideboard exemplifed the metal, Paul Dupré- Lafon, circa 1940. Lodge, an historic home overlooking Sydney Harbor. change in Printz’s design aesthetic in the late 1920s from the more One of the initial pieces acquired for the collection elaborate, decorative early Art Deco style to one more architectural, was an “Etoile” sideboard, circa 1955, designed by Jean with little or no ornamentation. Te dining table sold for $173,000 Royère and reminiscent of Jean-Michel Frank’s early (estimate $120,000-180,000) and the chairs for $56,250 (estimate, work. Te rare straw marquetry and oak sideboard sold $40,000-60,000). Asymmetrical sideboard, for $581,000, more than three times the upper estimate Another exceptional object from the Miro collection was an palmwood and gilt-bronze, Desk, palmwood and patinated Rare pair of wall sconces, bouchardé of $180,000. unusually large carpet with a geometric motif, circa 1930, designed Eugène Printz, circa 1928. wrought iron, Eugène Printz, glass and patinated bronze, Eugène One of three works by French furniture designer circa 1932. Printz, circa 1930. by Ivan da Silva-Bruhns for the living room of the Manik Bagh Eugène Printz led the auction, going for $845,000, (Jewel Garden), the Maharaja of Indore’s palace. Te Maharaja more than twice its upper estimate of $350,000. Te commissioned German architect Eckhart Muthesius to design circa 1932 desk of palmwood and patinated wrought iron inset an avant-garde style palace which Muthesius furnished with with a monogrammed plaque illustrated Printz’s mastery at joining objects designed by himself and such others as Émile-Jacques Dining table, palmwood, contrasting materials. In the auction catalogue, Wanzenberg charac- Pair of armchairs, Ruhlmann, Eileen Gray, René Herbst, and Marcel Breuer. He Eugène Printz, circa 1928. Andaman padauk, terized the desk with its gentle sinuous curves as “highly imaginative” selected da Silva-Bruhns to design the carpets. Te carpet sold bronze, and and a “well regarded masterpiece of exceptional design and crafts- fabric upholstery, for $437,000 (estimate, $300,000-500,000), setting a world manship.” Te other two designs by Printz were a pair of upholstered Eugène Printz, auction record for the designer. armchairs, circa 1935, of Andaman padauk with bronze accents, circa 1935. Christie’s also ofered a notable remnant from the which sold for $106,250 (estimate $50,000-70,000), and a rare pair SS Normandie. Tis lot, which was not part of the Miro of wall sconces, circa 1930, of bouchardé glass and patinated bronze, collection, was a panel of lacquered plaster with gold leaf, which brought $35,000 (estimate, $20,000-30,000). circa 1935, depicting a hunter and hound within a tropical Other notable sales included two panels from Te Birth of Aphro- forest with gazelles, foxes, and three marabous on the banks dite mural from the grand lounge of the SS Normandie, circa 1934, of a small pond. Tis smaller version of a portion of Dunand’s designed by Jean Dupas and executed in verre églomisé by Charles Two panels from hunting mural La Chasse from the entrance to the Normandie’s Champigneulle ($389,000; estimate, $50,000-70,000); The Birth of frst-class smoking room sold for $269,000 (estimate, Aphrodite mural a pair of model MF 172 armchairs, circa 1920, by Pierre Chareau $120,000-180,000). Dunand created 110 separate panels from the grand in Macassar ebony and lacquered wood with fabric upholstery lounge of the S. S. for the room, each secured to the walls with copper frames. ($341,000; estimate, $120,000-180,000); and a circa 1940 cross- Normandie, verre His depictions of such pursuits as fshing, athletics, horse legged console table by Paul Dupré-Lafon in parchment, cerused églomisé, Jean taming, grape harvesting, and hunting gave the space a Carpet from the palace of the La Chasse, lacquered plaster Dupas, circa 1934. Maharaja of Indore, Ivan da Silva- with gold leaf, Jean Dunand, oak, and patinated metal ($233,000; estimate, $80,000-120,000). masculine . Bruhns, circa 1930. circa 1935.

6 Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine Spring 2015 7 CADS RECAP A look back at the Society’s fall and events Faire du CADS Annual Meeting Lèche-Vitrines By Lisa Schlansker Kolosek Joe Loundy’s Accomplishments as (or Licking the Windows) President Recognized The French have a special term for window- Service, complete with original captions, the Mark Garzon Installed as New President shopping, faire du lèche-vitrines. Translated only such collection in the United States. Bon- encompasses the luxurious and exotic and, literally as “licking the windows,” the phrase ney’s captions are critical documentation of at the same time, the most austere. Bon- aptly describes Thérèse Bonney’s photographs the era, providing such information as names ney documented it all. Her oeuvre included of enticing Parisian storefronts and shop windows of architects and designers, addresses, colors, splendid examples of the former, replete with from the 1920s and 1930s. and materials used. Often spirited and witty, rich materials and geometric and naturalistic Members attending the CADS reviewed the plan for the conver- has shared its entire corporate they were clearly an essential sales tool for Annual Meeting on February 7 at sion of the Chicago Motor Club archive with CADS. n the late 1920s, the progressive French her photographs. Evermore important today, The beauty industry was quick to adopt these Roosevelt University paid tribute to a hotel. Amy also announced CADS Board member Glenn architect and designer René Herbst astute- they bring to life the images they describe, and more sumptuous elements of Art Deco in to Joe Loundy and his eight years the establishment of the Loundy Rogers ended the business portion ly declared, “the street is not just some- thereby Bonney herself and her unique vision. their boutiques, in addition to their packaging. as president of the Chicago Art Award for preservation, named of the meeting with a review of the where for the blandishments of advertising; The modern facade and the art of the dis- One example is a perfume shop with a distinct Deco Society Board of Directors. for the outgoing president. organization’s advances during Joe I it is also a museum, in which a passerby might play window were of tremendous interest dur- New CADS President Mark Allen Robert Bruegmann and Robert Loundy’s eight-year term as Board

czarek ing this period from both a public standpoint name and location were unfortunately not w G. Garzon, former executive vice Blandford, editors of the CADS president. During this time, CADS o photojournalist Thérèse Bonney fully agreed, and that of the most avant-garde architects - president of the CADS Board book project, summarized recent added new committees, transi- as she followed the opening of new shops and and designers. Examples were featured in ney: “In keeping with [the] modern movement : Jeff o and principal and co-founder of progress. Researchers have inves- tioned into the electronic age with the renovation of existing ones in Paris, and French periodicals such as Art et décoration and in architecture and decorative arts, a perfume T MGLM Architects and Interiors, tigated 150 potential objects being computerized membership renew- photographed hundreds of storefronts and also in American shelter magazines like The Pho recognized Joe’s continuing com- considered for the 100 key designs al and event registration, devel- window displays in the 1920s and 1930s. American Architect and Building News. Several gold and rose, and lower half in silver . . . door mitment to the Society where that will constitute the main body oped a social media presence, M. Thérèse Bonney (1884-1978) began albums, or portfolios, devoted entirely to this and windows kept in one geometric unit . . . it Joe will remain on the Board and of the book. The editors are now introduced collaborative program- her career in Paris in the early 1920s, after a subject were published, including Boutiques et carry the honorary title of presi- finalizing the list and assigning ming with groups sharing similar marvelous education at the University of Cali- Magasins and the series Nouvelles Devantures Joe Loundy, outgoing CADS president. dent emeritus. writers for the actual entries. interests, and encouraged the fornia Berkeley and Radcliffe College that cul- et Agencements de Magasins by René Herbst, Bonney indicated the importance of French As chairman of the Marketing Target date for completion of the formation of other Art Deco orga- minated in a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne. Instead along with similar titles by Gabriel Henriot, perfume as a commodity in A Shopping Guide Committee, formerly the Social entries and thematic essays is the nizations, including the recently of pursuing her work in English and French René Chavance, and the architect Louis Pierre to Paris, and the fact that it could be purchased czarek Media Committee, Mark report- end of 2015. Discussions continue formed group in Paris. The tribute w Sézille. Herbst himself was responsible for the not only in dedicated shops such as these, o ed on the committee’s efforts with the staff of the Chicago His- ended with a champagne toast to design of a number of boutiques on the Pont but in department stores and at coiffeurs and

: Jeff to expand awareness and under- tory Museum about collaboration Joe’s “leadership, bravery, perse- Europe. The years between the two world Alexandre III during the 1925 Paris Exposition couturiers. o T standing of CADS as an organi- between CADS and the museum verance, and inspiration.” wars were among the most creatively and cul- Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Indus- Pho zation among CADS members, on an exhibition being planned Jonathan Mekinda, assistant turally fervent in Paris, and Bonney took note. triels Modernes, including his own and that of friends, and the public through for 2018 on design in Chicago professor in the School of Art Focusing mainly on the documentation of the social media, the CADS website, between the wars. and Art History at the University rapidly emerging modern design movement, where he served as art director beginning general graphics, and market- Keith Bringe, CADS survey of Illinois at Chicago, addressed including international expositions and annual in 1927. Bonney carefully observed the retail New CADS President Mark Allen ing and communications. He also director, reviewed survey activi- - salon installations, interiors of private homes climate and the relatively new art of window Garzon. announced the appointment of ties over the past year, which ern’ Design: Art Deco between and public spaces, decorative arts, and archi- display in A Shopping Guide to Paris, the 1929 Erika Nygaard, CADS Magazine focused on the creation of an Chicago and .” During the tecture, The Bonney Service supplied photo- book she co-wrote with her sister Louise, graphic designer, to the position of online archive of digital images, 1920s and 1930s, Chicago and graphs to more than 20 countries worldwide, stating, “Not so many years ago all French communications director. documents, and databases that will Milan, both major commercial and most often to the United States. By 1929, stores considered the window the place to Amy Keller, Preservation Com- be accessible to editorial contribu- industrial centers, were actively Bonney employed a staff of nine and, as Helen display all the merchandise which they could mittee chair, described the com- tors to the book project. A recent Josephy and Mary Margaret McBride noted crowd into it. This is still the plan of many mittee’s activities over the past addition to the manufacturing for the emerging machine age. Cit- that year in Paris is a Woman’s Town, claimed shops, but the larger and smarter ones depend year. In addition to smaller advo- archive is a collection of over 200 to print “two hundred negatives a month in on artistic featuring, and have developed dis- cacy projects involving letter writ- images from the Italo-American cities, from international expo- “The coiffeur shop gives way to the march ing campaigns and meetings, the Accordion Manufacturing Compa- sitions to individual residences, interior accessories, alone.” The Cooper merchandising.” of modernism . . . one of the new shops which group supported landmark desig- ny. The company, which has been Jonathan examined the debut of Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Library Inspired by the 1925 Paris Exposition, a are gradually changing the aspect of Paris,” nation of the former Cairo Supper designing instruments in the Art Art Deco in the pursuit of “mod- is the repository of over 4,000 vitally impor- number of Parisian shops created storefronts Bonney said of Komol. With a modest win- Club, more recently Nick’s, and Deco style for almost a century, ern” design. tant black and white prints from The Bonney dow display that veiled the interior space, no 8 Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine Spring 2015 9 doubt intentional for the privacy of its custom- modern, and likely customized, typeface and appealing window at inventively ers, the story here was very much the facade. the disc-shaped door handles that the shop- presented a meticulous display of tennis balls The coiffeur decided upon colored marble and keeper leans on in Bonney’s photo. Designed and racquets. Another extravagant display glass, with striking Orientalist geometric ele- by architects J. Disse and A. Drouet, La Boîte featured columns of stockings and dozens of ments and typeface, a popular indicator of the à Musique was published in Herbst’s series Art Deco style. Nouvelles Devantures et Agencements de Maga- Paris . . . all the glamour associated with the sins, as was La Plaque Tournante record and French capital.” book shop. Located at 69 Avenue Kléber and designed by the architect Pierre Barbe, the facade of La Plaque Tournante was created in molded black staff, or plaster, with a strong horizontal emphasis evoking the grooves of a Edouard Loewy Librarie bookseller, 13 Boulevard Electrolux appliance showroom, 26 Boulevard phonograph record. Even the three metal bars Raspail, c. 1929. Malesherbes, c. 1928. that served as door handles followed this for- mula. At night, when the silver lettering was Modern materials and restraint prevailed in The historic and extremely avant-garde lit in blue neon, this clever facade appeared the studio facade of the architect René Prou at - to be curved. 80 Rue de Rome. Twelve identically sized glass ble in Paris in the inter-war years that they had panes framed in metal strips deferred to the their own, very elegant boutique. Bonney pro- Komol coiffeur (hairdresser), c. 1925. robust modernist typeface as the single design claimed, “SIEGEL’S . . . one of the new sights element. Described by Bonney as “a young of Paris by night . . . strikingly modern store Tennis balls and racquets display window, Chocolat Prévost chocolate and tea shop, 39 Beauge chemisier and chapelier presented decorator of advanced tastes,” Prou was the just opened on new French boulevard has all Printemps department store, 64 Boulevard Boulevard de Bonne-Nouvelle or 66 Rue de la Haussmann, c. 1928. a somewhat dizzying mix of design details in head of Pomone, the design department and the feeling modern decorative artists give to Chaussée-d’Antin, c. 1930. its storefront. Bonney noted, “Beauge the workshop at the Bon Marché department new architecture with innovations in lighting haberdasher chooses amusing facade is (sic) store. effects.“ At night, the sophisticated Art Deco The streets of Paris assumed a completely ultra modern style which brings in its own facade resembled a series of silver-grey picture new character at night. Shop windows served returns in publicity.” The exterior boasted frames with large glass panes that highlighted to illustrate the importance of new lighting marble trimmed with copper strips and elabo- the latest in fashion and display within. rately engraved glass. Perhaps a popular sarto- ideas and techniques of modern design. Bon- rial destination for English-speaking tourists, ney photographed a range of facades after dark including boutiques, automobile show- the words “SHIRTMAKER” and “HATTER” La Boîte à Musique phonograph shop, prominently occupy a portion of the facade, 133 Boulevard Raspail, c. 1928. rooms, department stores, restaurants, and quite unnecessarily, given the large quantities clubs. The showroom of Swedish appliance manufacturer Electrolux was the perfect set- ting in which to experience the most recent technology and design, especially when illu- Stockings and shoes display window, Printemps minated. This storefront was widely recog- department store, 64 Boulevard Haussmann, c. 1928. Atelier René Prou, 80 Rue de Rome, c. 1929. nized, photographed, and published in the late 1920s. Bonney followed suit: “Where the king Thérèse Bonney had an inherent, seri- Chocolat Prévost, a long-established choc- of electricity reigns . . . ELECTRO-LUX shop ous regard for beauty and innovation in all its olatier founded in 1826, presented a surpris- in Paris where the modern spirit of electric- forms. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, she ingly modern storefront and window display. ity has inspired a modernly designed exte- c. 1929. ardently promoted the new and the modern By the early 1930s, Chocolat Prévost had two rior for the shop.” The shop at 26 Boulevard in architecture and design through her work. locations in Paris, at 39 Boulevard de Bonne- Malesherbes was designed by the architect The relatively large size of department Her particular view from the streets of Paris La Plaque Tournante record and book shop, Nouvelle and 66 Rue de la Chaussée-d’Antin. Germain Debré and consisted of large plates store windows allowed for elaborate, artistic, has proven to be one of the most important 69 Avenue Kléber, c. 1928. Designed by the architect M. J. Mauri, the of glass and narrow strips of iron that allowed and sometimes even narrative displays of mer- and inspiring documentations of the Art Deco Beauge chemisier and chapelier (shirtmaker exterior was constructed of ribbed and clear the passerby a direct and unobstructed view chandise that simply were not feasible in small- era. and hatmaker), c. 1925-30. Thérèse Bonney considered the Edouard glass panes supported in flat metal strips, inside. The sleek lettering boldly repeating er settings. “Both the Galeries and Printemps Loewy Libraire at 137 Boulevard Raspail the while the window display featured modern “Electrolux” three times was indirectly lit with have revolutionized their window displays . . . Lisa Schlansker Kolosek is the author of The The bookstores and record shops that “haunt of the modern bibliophile.” Executed paintings, , and glass vessels resting a yellow-green effect. Invention of Chic: Thérèse Bonney and Paris Bonney chose to photograph are tremen- in stone, silver paint, and iron with an original on gleaming stands. study,” Bonney instructed. There were a num- Moderne (Thames & Hudson, 2002). dously compelling, often designed by notable and very distinct typeface, both the exterior ber of department stores in Paris at this time architects of the era. They are among the most and the interior of the shop were designed such as Galeries Lafayette, Samaritaine, Trois- All the photographs in this article are from the modern in design and use of materials and con- by Claude Lévy. Art Deco book bindings and Quartiers, Bon Marché, and Grands Magasins Thérèse Bonney Collection at Cooper Hewitt, trast sharply with some of the more opulent dust jackets represented an entire industry in du Louvre. However, Bonney photographed Smithsonian Design Museum Library, published boutiques found in Paris at that time. the 1920s and 1930s, and were displayed as the “arresting” windows at Printemps most with the permission of the Smithsonian Bonney described La Boîte à Musique at art forms in the most important international often. She captured a vast range of installa- Libraries and The Bancroft Library, University 133 Boulevard Raspail as “brilliant red duco expositions and salon installations. tions from fashion and accessories, to fabrics, of California, Berkeley. surmounted by opaque white glass on which sporting goods, and more. One marvelously music motifs are engraved . . . door and metal work of forged iron.” She also noted the

10 Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine Spring 2015 11 Kem Weber, armchair manufactured by A LOOk INSIDE... the Grand Rapids Chair Company, sage green-painted beech with black leather upholstery, 1928. Yale University Art Kem Weber, Gallery, promised gift of John C. Waddell. Designer and Architect

CHRISTOPHER LONG nishings. The job offered Weber designing residences, interiors, firms like Lloyd Manufacturing Weber’s peers clearly recog- a steady income and allowed him furniture, storefronts, and acces- Company of Menominee, Mueller nized his talent. During his career, YALE UNIVERSITY to design and build a home for his sories. His abundant sketches for Furniture Company and Haskelite he taught design, lectured, and PRESS, 2014 wife and three children. these projects demonstrate his Manufacturing Company of Grand held leadership positions in pro- The interiors he designed for accomplished draftsmanship and Rapids, and the Grand Rapids fessional organizations. But his new Barkers Brothers stores are well represented in Long’s Chair Company. In Chicago he continuing attempts to gain accep- Reviewed by in Los Angeles and Hollywood book. Unfortunately, his designs visited S. Karpen & Bros. and the tance, his absence from home, Bennett Johnson included Modes and Manners were often ahead of their time, Furniture Mart. His knowledge shops specializing in modern fur- and many were never executed. of wood and led to took their toll on him and his fam- niture, a concept he introduced. His modern approach, combined innovative approaches to design, CHriSTOPHEr LONG HAS his hands. After being asked to But like other immigrant modern with anti-German sentiments including his now-iconic 1935 to design private residences and done it again! His well-researched leave a prestigious gymnasium at designers struggling to be recog- during both wars and the impact “Air Line” chair. Unable to inter- to sail, an early passion. By the review of Berlin-born Kem Weber nized in the 1920s, such as Rudolf of the Depression, kept Weber est a manufacturer in his design, 1950s, he was disenchanted and is the first extensive documen- esteemed cabinetmaker’s shop Schindler and Richard Neutra, he Weber produced the chair in small dispirited. His son-in-law Peter tation of the man and his work in Potsdam. Three years later he was disappointed by the public’s During most of the 1930s, quantities at his own expense, but Edwards, the husband of Weber’s Kem Weber, Air Line Chair, birch, ash, and received his diploma, but instead and another must for your Deco reluctance to buy. Weber was on the road or the few sold. daughter Erika, worked for Weber Naugahyde, c. 1935. Yale University Art library. If you’ve read Long’s Paul of progressing to journeyman, Weber left Barker Brothers in rails trying to sell his furniture Gallery. Promised gift of John P. Axelrod. L. Frankl and Modern American he enrolled in the School of the late 1927 to open his own practice designs to Midwestern Michigan receptive to his modern designs. demanding, impatient and often Design or any of his other books, Royal Arts and Crafts Museum The Bixby residence interiors that harshly critical, at times even you know how thorough and com- headed by Bruno Paul. He later he designed in the mid-1930s for a overbearing.” In the late 1950s, plete he can be. For this latest joined Paul’s architectural practice Kansas City insurance executive Weber developed Alzheimer’s and work, Kem Weber, Designer and where Mies van der Rohe and Le are a rare instance of what he died of pneumonia in 1963 at age Architect, he had access to an Corbusier had also worked. Paul could do for a willing client with a 73 in a retirement home in Ojai, overwhelming amount of previ- considered Weber to be his best substantial budget and provide an California. ously undiscovered material from student and selected him to super- example of what might have been. Weber never abandoned his Weber’s youngest daughter, Erika vise the installation of the German In fact, Long’s entire book makes dedication to Modernism or Plack, including correspondence pavilion at the 1910 International the reader wish more of Weber’s his design philosophy, which he and photographs found in a trunk Exposition in Brussels and, later, projects had been executed. summed up in a debate of “Mod- in a backyard shed that furnished the German exhibition for the Later in the 1930s, ernism vs. Classicism in Architec- personal and professional history. commissioned him to design a ture” at a 1930 gathering of the He also tapped records in Berlin Exposition in San Francisco. new studio complex in Burbank. Southern California chapter of and California and interviewed Weber arrived in the United Another project documented in the American Institute of Archi- colleagues of Weber. Long once States in 1914 at the start of World the book is Weber’s prefabricated tects: “A true modern piece again succeeds in pulling together War I. When materials intended housing for World War II defense of furniture is designed to for the San Francisco exhibition all this material into an organized workers, which never advanced incorporate all the advan- Kem Weber, LC-52-A lounge chair manufactured and exciting book. were embargoed in Germany, Kem Weber, project for a villa, perspective from beyond the prototype stage. tages of modern materials, by the Lloyd Manufacturing Company, Menominee, Not familiar with Kem Weber? he was forced to improvise. the courtyard, pencil on , 1923. Kem Chicago offered him another production facilities and con- Michigan, chromium-plated steel, birch plywood, and His iconic designs can be found Although stranded in the United Weber Archive, Architectural Drawings Collection, base where he showcased new struction, and if it is a good design leatherette, 1934-35. Courtesy of Sotheby’s New York. in private collections and muse- States with little knowledge of Art, Design, and Architecture Museum, University designs at the Furniture Mart and it will give a beautiful result. It will ums, including the Art Institute of English, he persevered and in of California, Santa Barbara. did some remodeling projects. be good to look at, practical in its Chicago. His diverse designs span 1915 he opened a studio and In the early 1940s he designed a uses and becoming to ourselves. It several decades and dramatize the shop that featured his designs. He cocktail lounge and a new illumi- will be less expensive and of better challenges he faced trying to intro- never left California. Kem Weber, “Silver Style” nated sign for the Bismarck Hotel quality.” duce Modernism to a conservative In 1921, Weber joined Barker cocktail shaker and (today Hotel Allegro) and updated For Weber, Modernism was American audience. Brothers furniture store in tray for the Friedman the guest rooms. An image of Silver Company, Born in Berlin in 1889 as Karl a renovated room from 1944 Rather, it was about responding to silverplate and ebony, Emanuel Martin Weber, he later employer in this country. shows a shockingly radical design. structural, economic, and social c. 1928. Courtesy of Americanized his name to “KEM” He rose through the ranks to Sotheby’s New York. Another Loop project from this requirements to meet modern Weber. As a teen, he struggled in design and supervise an in-house period was a redesign of the Old needs and modern life. school and longed to work with factory producing traditional fur- Heidelberg Restaurant.

12 Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine Spring 2015 13 Pho ier T a o f s: Byron s: John John s: o T c o M Pho P a ny, The r i chard h .

d riehaus c ol lec T ion

A Room in Great SS Normandie Chicago Video sTill By Jean-Michel BerTs, The richard h. driehaus collecTion

By Rolf Achilles

he fairest of ocean liners, the SS Normandie, took her maiden worldwide, but he also assembled a personal album of images of that been spared to showcase the best of France’s most established artists, Tese historical, like-minded objects unify the room that John voyage between and New York on May 29, 1935. She voyage that have not been widely seen or published. designers, and manufacturers of grand luxe. It was an aesthetic tour Nelson and ASI architects conceptualized with silver-swirled walls, Timmediately defned her era, set its style. She roared superla- Richard H. Driehaus, a Chicago-based philanthropist, collector, de force. drapes, ceiling, gold trim, raw silk carpets, sleek gray sofas, and tives as the sleekest, fastest, largest, most powerful and beautiful ship founder of a museum of decorative arts, and sponsor of the annual Mr. Driehaus had earlier acquired 12 panels designed by Joseph metal tables, all custom designed. Striated glass naturally brightens the world had ever seen. Like many beauties, she was on everyone’s Driehaus Prize in Architecture, purchased this album in 2013 at Urban from the 1927 Ziegfeld Teatre at Sixth Avenue and Fifty- the room without causing distraction. Te Urban murals and a fre lips, yet her westbound, then eastbound, speed records, which defned auction in New York. It was just the latest, though not his only, Fourth Street in New York. Urban had been the scenic designer for screen by Jeko Vukovljak inspired by French masterpieces good design and luxury travel, led to losses for her patron, the French acquisition guided by an aesthetic inspired by the light of the SS the Follies shows starting in 1915 and Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. had com- by Edgar Brandt continue the spirit of the Normandie, although they Line Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. Within seven years, Normandie. Mr. Driehaus likes light, perfect light. missioned him and Tomas W. Lamb to design the theater. Lillian were never part of it. Stone from complements the colors of a her 139 westbound North Atlantic crossings, speed records, and Fifteen years earlier, in June and December 1998, Mr. Driehaus Gaertner Palmedo (1906-?) had painted the oil-on-canvas murals, mantle clock in the style of Marie-Louis Süe and André Mare. A pair universal acclaim could not save her from being seized by U.S. War had acquired verre eglomisé panels from Te Birth of Aphrodite mural which perfectly complemented the aesthetic of the room. of Subes torcheres blend perfectly with the gates he also designed. Department authorities in New York who quickly renamed her the by Jean Dupas that had decorated the Normandie’s famous Grand In 1999, a year after he acquired the Normandie panels, Mr. For several years the room remained a work in progress, but its USS Lafayette. During her conversion to a troop transporter, some Salon. Originally each panel had been a small scene in a much larger Driehaus purchased an iron gate, circa 1939, designed by Andre aesthetic direction did not change. By 2007, its contents and their elements of her world-renowned interior were removed. Te majority, composition. But even as fragments they stand on their own as com- Arbus (1903-1969) and Raymond Subes (1891-1970), with the help placement were nearly complete. Te room has its own staircase and however, were destroyed when the liner caught fre on February 9, plete art works that tell their own story. A key question Mr. Driehaus of Historical Design of New York. He bought a pair of armchairs railing and Art Deco ice crystal starburst lights at the entrance. An 1942, capsized, and settled in the mud of Hudson River Pier 88. and his architect, John Nelson, faced as they began to envision the designed for the Normandie by Pierre Patout (1879-1965) from adjoining bathroom is executed in stainless steel and the adjacent Percy (Perciful) Claude Byron (1878-1959), English, Canadian, panels in a residential setting was how to ft in these superb works. Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. Two related acquisitions—artist’s library in luxurious exotic woods. American, and one of the premier maritime photographers of his How could they display and allow them to tell their story without proofs for two decorative panels designed by Jean Dunand (1877- With the addition of a large contemporary video mural by French generation, documented her maiden voyage while he was living on detracting from or overshadowing other objects from the era that 1942) and executed in lacquer for the frst-class smoking room of the artist Jean-Michel Berts of the Normandie at Sea, the room and its Staten Island. He had been specializing in maritime photography Mr. Driehaus had gathered over some 20 years of collecting? It took Normandie—are now mounted to the left and right of the Aphrodite inspiration are now in perfect harmony. since 1917 and in 1935 he became the ofcial photographer for more than a decade to get the Great Room right. Ultimately, it was mural. A Tambourine Dancer sculpture by Afortunato G. Gori the Normandie’s frst trip. Many of his photographs were published inspired by the grand salons of the Normandie where no expense had stretches atop a sideboard attributed to Christian Krass (1868-1957). All photographs © Richard H. Driehaus Collection. 14 Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine Spring 2015 15 A LOOk INSIDE... French Art Deco

JARED GOSS THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART 2014 Jean Dunand, Juliette Louis Süe and André Mare, Desk and Chair. Desk, Jacques Le Chevallier and Armand-Albert Rateau, Georges Fouquet, Dress de Saint Cyr, c. 1925, c. 1925, ebonized wood (probably beech), oak, René Koechlin, Lamp, 1926-27, Dressing Table, c. 1925, bronze, Ornament, c. 1923, jade, lacquered wood and zebrawood, gilt bronze, and leather. Desk chair, aluminum and ebonite. black limestone, Carrara onyx, diamonds, enamel, Reviewed by eggshell. c. 1925, ebonized wood (possibly walnut or beech) marble, and mirror glass. and platinum. Linda Levendusky and pigskin.

BACk BEfOrE frENCH ArT raphies of 49 designers, arranged to French Art Deco. He distills he used to clean his brushes and Deco had acquired an American in alphabetical order and accom- what distinguishes French Deco began experimenting with spray- Jean Dupas and Charles Champigneulle, The Chariot following, much less a name or a panied by a photo or sketch of to two essential characteristics: lacquered hats and clothes. Saint of Poseidon, mural executed for the grand salon - the artist, precede a generous “its simultaneous expression of Cyr shows off a Dunand lacquered of the SS Normandie, 1934, glass, paint, and tan Museum of Art’s far-sighted description and color photos of modernity and national historical dress and jewelry in her portrait. gold, silver, and palladium leaf. Decorative Arts Department each object. Well-chosen quotes precedent, and its alliance of art Art and craft may have been began accumulating contemporary from contemporaries and period and craftsmanship.” That alliance allied, but the French design French objects made in the “mod- photographs showing objects in encouraged designers to move community was divided between ern spirit.” Within four years, it situ enrich the entries with histori- the champions of a modernist had acquired nearly 100 works, cal context. arts amidst a spirit of experimen- approach and those working with- - Not all the designers included tation and collaboration. in a framework of more traditional cant French Art Deco collection are household names. The size Luxurious and strange objects French design—albeit not without of today. of the entries depends on the in surprising new forms, appli- overlap, Goss observes. Extreme French Art Deco, a new guide extent of the designer’s contribu- cations, and materials—some close-up photos allow readers to to the collection, doubles as both tions to the Met’s collection or imported from France’s colonies appreciate the meticulous work an introduction to the style’s to the French Deco movement. in Asia and Africa—emerged. of the vegetable-dyed shagreen French creators and as a cata- Ruhlmann commands 18 pages, Veneers of tanned fish skins that Clément Rousseau stretched logue to Masterpieces of French the largest entry. Collectors will (shagreen) and tree sap (lacquer) across his exotic circa 1924 ebony Art Deco, a rotating installation appreciate the thumbnail photos appeared on unlikely surfaces table, using a complicated and of more than 150 objects that of maker’s marks, provenance, and and inspired designers to revive forgotten galuchat method that author Jared Goss assembled and exhibition history contained in a and master laborious, dormant displayed at the Met from August glossary at the end of the book. techniques perfected long ago in Or we can luxuriate in the zebra- 2009 through January 2011. Goss wood interior of an imposing was then associate curator in the Art Deco pieces in 1922, three Swiss-born sculptor Jean Dunand ebony desk with ormolu mounts museum’s Department of Modern years before the celebrated Expo- tried his hand at every medium at inspired by early eighteenth cen- and Contemporary Art. In April sition Internationale des Arts Déco- hand. His novel portrait of Juliette tury French writing tables that 2005 he spoke to CADS about ratifs et Industriels Modernes, from de Saint Cyr, painted on wood in Louis Süe and André Mare showed the career of French designer É.-J. which the style’s name was even- colored lacquer and white gold, Ruhlmann, the subject of a 2004 tually derived, was held in Paris. circa 1925, displays the eggshell exhibition at the Met that he co- It opened its first galleries of lacquering technique that became curated. He is now an independent modern decorative arts in 1923 to his specialty. It was so popular in scholar working in New York. introduce the public to a rotating fact that Dunand began raising Sumptuous, color photo- selection of choice contemporary chickens and leased his neighbor- graphs—many of them full- or design and, it was hoped, to inspire hood’s egg supply in order to double-page spreads—take us American designers to follow suit. amass enough eggshells of suitable behind the display ropes for a In introductory essays, Goss quality and whiteness to satisfy curator’s view of more than 100 summarizes the French style’s the demand. His expert facility objects from the Met’s highly origins, development, demise, with lacquer took him still fur- regarded decorative arts collec- and subsequent rediscovery, as Clément Rousseau, Table, 1924, tion. Succinct and engaging biog- well as the Met’s own relationship effect of lacquer on the silk rags ebony, galuchat, ivory, and brass.

16 Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine Spring 2015 17 Virtual tours of Art Deco architecture in select cities in the United States and throughout the world are now only a click away. Several Art Deco organizations

Pho Marcel Goupy, Vase, c. 1925, Edgar Brandt, Perse Grille, c. Pierre Patout, Pair of Armchairs designed for the Raymond Templier, Mirror,

In 2012, the Miami Design Preservation League (MDPL) launched T glass and gold. 1923, iron. Normandie, 1934, 1921, silver, gold, carnelian, o : mahogany and gilt bronze with wool upholstery. enamel, and pewter. a complete resurvey of Art Deco, Miami Modern (MiMo), and aM Mediterranean style buildings within the Art Deco Historic District anda MacMas it had helped create in the 1970s under the leadership of the late Barbara Baer Capitman. Funding from the City of Miami Beach

paid for student interns to survey the district, collect historic infor- T e Jean Dunand mation, photograph buildings, and visit each property to determine if r and Séraphin Soudbinine, any changes had occurred since the group’s frst survey. Fortissimo MDPL has incorporated this material into an online database Screen, 1925-26, that currently contains more than 1,200 buildings located on Ocean lacquered wood, Drive, Collins Avenue, Lincoln Road, and Espanola Way. Each site eggshell, and Hotels and Pho

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are among the r T struction date, style, and other categories. Te database is hosted by h building types ur Marcus RuskinARC™, a cloud-based platform for professional architectural found in the South survey, mapping, and information management. It can be accessed Miami Beach Art Deco Historic É.-J. Ruhlmann, David-Weill É.-J. Ruhlmann, Tibattant Desk, directly at ruskinarc.com/mdpl or through the MDPL website. Desk, c. 1918-19, amboyna, c. 1923, Macassar ebony, ivory, District and ivory, galuchat, silk, metal, oak, leather, aluminum leaf, silver, MDPL will use the database for advocacy, educational program- included in the lumber-core plywood, poplar, silk, oak, lumber-core plywood, ming, and community outreach activities. After completing the MDPL registry. walnut, birch, and Macassar poplar, and mahogany. resurvey of the Art Deco Historic District, MDPL plans to expand ebony. the database to include the twelve local historic districts in Miami Beach and then all of Miami Beach. in their pavilion at the 1925 Paris ers and builders to offer clients ration. His description of one of lector Doucet’s Paris apartment, exposition. Their desk and match- fully customized interiors and a the collection’s earliest pieces, a found during a routine cleaning by ing chair, upholstered in dyed complete line of services. They 1914 painted silk fan from George Met conservators. Another entry orange pigskin, were the main exercised total control over fur- Barbier, identifies a direct con- notes that Rateau gave the Met a Te website of the Art Deco Society of purchase of the four works that nection between the composition pretty ivory-handled bronze hand Joseph Breck, the Met’s assistant coverings, lighting, and art, as and drawing style of its Deco- mirror that he made to match his Boston (ADSB) ofers an Art Deco walking director and curator of decorative well as workmanship. Prominent elegant marble-topped circa 1925 tour of downtown Boston. Te “Tour Bos- arts, bought directly from the fair. couturiers like Jacques Doucet Etruscan tomb frescoes that he dressing table as a thank-you gift. ton!” tab opens to a Google map of thirteen Unlike the short-lived and and Jeanne Lanvin commissioned said enthralled Barbier. He calls Rateau made at least four versions Art Deco sites ranging from stepped-back eventually degraded Art Nouveau forward-thinking designers to out- an abstract faceted aluminum lamp of the vanity, including one for skyscrapers with luxurious French Art style that preceded it, French Art with exposed bulb, brass screws, Lanvin’s home. Deco ornamentation to 1930s examples of Deco retained its luxury repu- striking au courant decor, reaping and ebonite braces from 1926, The Met stopped buying the more Streamlined style and post-Deco tation throughout its approxi- the cache of modernity for them- done in the Machine aesthetic by French Art Deco in the mid-1930s. Modernist ofce buildings constructed just mately two-decade tenure, wisely selves while offering the designers Jacques Le Chevallier and René Bronze relief by sculptor Paul Fjelde, Second National Koechlin, “a virtual essay in Cub- 1937, the year the Musée des Arts after World War II. or torturing materials and tech- set of potential customers. ist design.” Décoratifs in Paris presented the Each site includes a photo, which leads James, 1929. niques beyond their capacity. The Although curator Breck’s taste Goss treats readers to inside to individual pages listing completion date, period witnessed the rise of the tended toward the more tradi- information, such as the puzzling exhibition of nearly 1,500 items architect, building history, architectural features, ensembliers such as Süe et Mare, tional strain of French Deco, Goss discovery of a small medal of St. representing the period 1900 and more photos. Coming soon are an Art Deco Armand-Albert Rateau, and the presents works exemplifying a Thérèse of Lisieux lodged behind through 1925. Not until 1969 did walking tour of the Back Bay and driving tours unrivaled Ruhlmann, who assem- kaleidoscope of vibrant colors, a leg of the table Rousseau made the Met buy French Art Deco of other Boston neighborhoods, surrounding Paramount Theatre, 549-563 Washington bled teams of talented design- aesthetics, and sources of inspi- for fashion designer and art col- again. communities in greater Boston, and New England. Street, Arthur H. Bowditch, 1930-32. 18 Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine Spring 2015 19 artdeco.org

Fish Building, apartment house Te Art Deco Society of New York (ADSNY) has accumulated To discover the location of signifcant Art Deco buildings in Quebec includes a chronological list of the major Art Deco buildings in at 1150 Grand Concourse, Bronx, information on more than 200 buildings spread over the city’s fve H. I. Feldman, 1937. Province, go to the Art Deco Society of Montreal’s French-English Montreal, along with such information as address, architects, and the boroughs since it initiated its Art Deco Registry and interactive New website. Te site’s “Buildings” tab leads to a Google map with click- artists involved in their design. Building names listed in blue contain York Deco Map in early 2014. Begun under the guidance of ADSNY able icons accessing photos and notes on the buildings. Te site also additional photos. Vice President Stephen Van Dyk, the registry is the frst efort to research and list all the Art Deco buildings in New York City in a single database. Pho Students and volunteers are working with Van Dyk to compile Pho T

Te Durban Deco Directory on the Durban Art T o o : Mike Mulholland : Mike the list. Entries include a photo of the building and can be sorted by : Deco Society website ofers virtual tours of three d o architect, borough, address, neighborhood, building function, year of local Deco districts. Tese district maps feature nald construction, and number of foors. Each building is vetted before it

“Deco ” indicating building locations. d a is put into the database. Tose designated as New York landmarks are V i

Each is tied to a specifc building whose es linked to the ofcial Landmark Designation Report for additional name “ghosts” across the map. Video clips, text, information. and slide shows appear to the right of the map. To commemorate the fftieth anniversary of the passage of the A lively Deco-era tune accompanies the tour. New York Landmarks Preservation Law, this spring ADSNY is sponsoring Documenting Deco, a city-wide contest with the New York City high schools. Te project challenges students to fnd and photograph Deco buildings in their neighborhood for possible inclu- Facade and interior, Jubilee Court, 55 Dr. Yusuf Dado Road (Broad Street), c. 1933. sion on the registry. Te database, hosted on the ADSNY website, provides a valu- able resource for researchers, advocacy groups, educators, community artdecowa.org.au leaders, and anyone interested in learning more about Art Deco and Moderne throughout New York City. Te information also serves as Te “Gallery” section on the Art Deco Society of Western a basis for self-guided tours and podcasts. ADSNY will continually Australia’s (ADSWA) website contains photographs and expand the listings and add information. Ambassador Apartments, 30 Daniel black-and-white drawings by the society’s vice president Manhattan, Sloan & Robertson, Low Terrace, Staten Island, Lucien Ron Facius of a sampling of the more than 1,000 Art 1931. Pisciatta, 1932. Deco buildings in various areas of Western Australia compiled by the ADSWA. daads.org Pho Regal Theatre, Subiaco, W. G.

Te “preservation” link on the Detroit Area Art Deco Society T o

: Jack Johnson : Jack Bennett and W. T. Leighton, (DAADS) website lists a sampling of the area’s Art Deco build- Residence at 32 Genesta Crescent, Dalkeith, O. Chisholm, 1938. Drawing by Ron Facius. 1939. ings including such iconic skyscrapers as the Fisher, Guardian, and Penobscot buildings. Treatened, saved, and even some examples of “Echo-Deco” sites are also shown. twentieth.org.au

An introduction to architectural styles found in New South Wales, Australia Guardian Building, 500 Griswold Street, Wirt C. Rowland, 1929. is accessible through the “architecture + design” tab on the website of the Twen- tieth Century Heritage Society of NSW. artdecosociety.org Te listings are organized by building type—churches, commercial, industrial, Te website of the Art Deco Society of California currently features Karen Geer with the help of a summer intern. Te information public buildings, pubs, and residential— approximately twenty-fve Art Deco sites in North and Central Cali- was obtained from a research archive assembled by the Preservation and include photographs of twentieth Blues Point Hotel, North Sydney, Justelius & fornia. Te “Maps” tab leads to a Google map displaying these sites. Committee for past Art Deco Preservation Awards. Committee century buildings within each category. Frederick, 1938. Clicking on a location yields a photo of the building and available members also photographed the buildings. Te map is a work in Most are exterior shots, but some interior information such as architect, year of completion, address, and a progress. New Preservation Director Terese Poletti hopes to views are also featured. Additional informa- short description. undertake a more comprehensive mapping of Deco structures in tion, such as architect and year completed, Residence at 215 Edinburgh Road in the Sydney suburb of Castlecrag, Eric Nicholls, 1940. Te site was set up in 2010 by the society’s then-webmaster California. is included when available. 20 Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine Spring 2015 21 So Far Away–and Yet So Close Art Deco architecture in cosmopolitan Shanghai, site of the 13th World Congress on Art Deco, November 2015

By Tina Kanagaratnam and Wm. Patrick Cranley The jazzy speedlines of the Willow Imperial-style decorative scroll motifs and Court Apartments (Leonard, a stone roof designed to resemble tile are the 1926 Cercle Sportif Francais (Leonard & Veysseyre) may have Veysseyre & Kruze, 1934) some of the Chinese decorative details announced the arrival of Art Deco design in Shanghai. provide a beacon of Art Deco that adorn Poy Gum Lee’s delightful 1934 style in Shanghai’s former French YWCA building. Concession. alk down a Shanghai street and it’s nearly impossible not to encounter Art Deco. The style was born in Paris and Englishman George “Tug” Wilson, Russian Alexander Yaron, Spaniard places like faraway Shanghai. In this cosmopolitan city, architects and designers Abelard Lafuente, and an expanding roster of foreign-trained Chinese from abroad worked alongside their Chinese counterparts to create works architects such as Robert Fan and Dong Dayou. that often integrated China’s own rich artistic traditions. Following the pattern seen elsewhere around the world, the city’s architects combined local artistic traditions with the more “universal” as China transitioned from its imperial past into a modern, globalized, indus- imported elements of Art Deco to create a unique Chinese or Shanghai trial world. The port of Shanghai had opened to trade in 1843 following Art Deco. Its most iconic example is the Bank of China building on the Bund, Shanghai’s riverfront pageant of architectural masterpieces. The Sections outside the walled city of Shanghai, called the “foreign settlements,” - were given over to Western powers: the British and American Settlements ments in its design: pierced lattice-like windows, a traditional roof with (amalgamated into one International Settlement in 1863) and the French upturned eaves, and a pair of mythical beasts guarding the entrance. Concession. In Shanghai, East and West met and mingled, and this alchemy Another striking example is Poy Gum Lee’s 1934 YWCA building, produced something far greater than the sum of its parts: China’s grand located one block behind the Bund, featuring Chinese Imperial scroll metropolis, the dadushi—Paris of the Orient. motifs on an otherwise typical Art Deco step-back design. The lobby Shanghai was easily Asia’s most advanced city by the 1920s, with a The stately Bank of China (Palmer & Turner and Lu Qianshou, 1936), population approaching three million, boasting the continent’s tallest build- ceiling—a mix of Chinese and Western elements emblematic of Chinese an excellent example of Chinese Art Deco and the only building on the ings, latest technology, and most fashionable women. People from around Art Deco. Bund that includes Chinese design elements. the world arrived to seek their fortunes, and made astronomical ones—in Right next to the Bank of China building stands the 1929 Cathay Hotel elite emerged, educated in Western schools in Shanghai and in universities abroad. Art Deco was made for this city where modernity, progress, and bon vivant cutting-edge style were programmed into its very DNA. Sir Victor Sassoon, its prominent location at the foot of Nanjing Road, Art Deco arrived in Shanghai through a pair of young French archi- Shanghai’s “Miracle Mile,” guaranteed that everyone saw what Art Deco tects, Alexandre Leonard and Paul Veysseyre. The style was already mak- was: a celebration of up-to-date glamour in an age of modern wonders. ing waves in Paris when they began work on the Cercle Sportif Francais, a Art Deco was embraced throughout the city—not just in hotels lavish country club in the western part of the French Concession. Opened and banks, but also in theaters, civic buildings, and even its vernacular in 1926, the French Club, as expatriates called it, presented a conservative residential architecture, the lane neighborhoods, or lilongs, that ran like Beaux Arts exterior fronting its le style moderne interior like that recently rabbit warrens throughout Shanghai. showcased at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris in 1925. The ballroom still retains its dramatic geomet- ric sunburst ceiling light, imported from Paris, and original Sharp-eyed visitors will notice that the designs (left) The 1929 Cathay Hotel (Palmer & Turner), re-named the Peace Hotel after haircuts of many of Shanghai’s contemporary buildings take cues from the city’s Art Deco heyday. The Leonard and Veysseyre went on to complete over 100 commissions, intersection in town, the corner of the Bund and Nanjing Road, overlooking the architects of the Jin Mao Tower (Chicago’s own most of them in the Art Deco style, and most surviving. But they Huangpu River. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 2005) used both weren’t the only champions of Art Deco in Shanghai. There was also (right) Streamlined lane, or lilong, houses in the former French Concession Chinese pagoda design and classic American Laszlo Hudec of Hungary, Americans Elliott Hazzard and Poy Gum Lee, global Art Deco with Shanghai’s indigenous residential architecture. Art Deco skyscrapers as inspiration. Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine Spring 2015 23 The Greater Shanghai Plan buildings designed by Dong Dayou are supreme examples of Chinese Art Deco. Also known as “Ming Revival,” this sub-genre introduced modernized Chinese elements such as Chinese roofs, patterns, and characters, and in some cases, Modernist versions of classical Chinese architecture to produce a unique form of Deco. Certainly, there is no better example and no building in the world like Dong’s Civil Aviation Administration Building, which combines Chinese design elements with that popular icon of the Machine Age, a streamlined airplane. in Shanghai, both the Hollywood variety and those made in Shanghai. In their theater designs, architects embraced the escapism on the screen and let their imaginations run wild. The results are evident in the glamor- ous sweep of the Majestic Theatre’s staircase, the tiny but exquisite lobby Railings resembling Imperial architecture (think Forbidden City) of the Capitol Theatre, the ironwork of the Chekiang Theatre banisters, mark the 1935 Civil Aviation Administration Building (Dong Dayou) Robert Fan’s elegant 1941 Majestic Theatre is a bit worse for wear as Chinese Art Deco. Art Deco in Shanghai wasn’t just buildings. The spirit of a new age per- today and is currently undergoing an extensive renovation. meated the city’s graphic design, furniture, and fashion. Oh what fashion! qipao and Art Deco-inspired advertising for everything from beauty cream to house paint. Furniture designers took Art Deco elements and transplanted them onto traditional Chinese furniture, while young graphic design- ers created Art Deco magazine covers and even transformed Chinese typographic fonts. Although Shanghai’s inter-war explosion of Art Deco design was interrupted by Japan’s occupation of much of China in 1937 and the subsequent Second World War, optimistic developers continued to build Figure-hugging Detail, Civil Aviation Administration Building. in the latest styles as Art Deco transitioned into the Modernist style. A qipao dresses surprising number of stripped-down, undecorated Bauhaus-like buildings (better known still line the leafy streets of Shanghai’s historic downtown area, offering in the West by discerning fans a feast of late Art Deco and Modernist design. Visitors the Cantonese attuned to the Art Deco style will quickly realize that many of Shanghai’s cheongsam) were a mark contemporary buildings draw directly on its architectural past; Art Deco of the modern, style simply feels “right” to the Shanghai design eye. From November 2–6, the 2015 World Congress on Art Deco will Shanghai Girl during the Art lectures and walking tours, social events, and a farewell gala. Participants Deco period. may also opt for a pre-Congress trip to Beijing (October 28–November 1) that will include visits to the capital’s famous sights and the Great Wall, as well as its handful of Art Deco buildings. The post-Congress trip will be to Nanjing (November 7–10), China’s capital from 1927–1937, where Chinese Art Deco buildings were commissioned for the use of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government.

For more information on the World Congress on Art Deco 2015 in Shanghai, visit historic-shanghai.com or shanghaiartdeco.net.

Laszlo Hudec’s 1930 Chekiang Theatre still operates as a cinema and still retains Tina Kanagaratnam and Wm. Patrick Cranley of Historic Shanghai its wrought iron bannister. are currently planning the 13th World Congress on Art Deco. to obstruct the view of the screen. Fans of late Art Deco and Modernist architecture have plenty to explore in Shanghai too, like this Wukang Road residence.

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Entrance to the Cal Art Building. The 1930s Art Deco storefront of the 1873 Wayland Building. Art Art

Vintage postcard of a Cal Art Christmas display.

By Jeffrey A. Amelse And frAnces J. donovAn

Y WIFE FRANNE AND I took a road trip money and set up a shop in Rhode Island instead. But to New England last October to view the fall he kept the name he had planned for his new venture. colors and see family in Rhode Island. Franne Te company originally produced paper and cloth fowers Mgrew up in Cranston and her brothers still live in the state. intended for store window displays, but they soon became Our daughter now lives there too. We arrived when the household decorations. By 1930, the company had sales colors had peaked; it was spectacular. ofces across the country. Te elaborate Christmas and Cal Art Building, Albert Harkness, 1939. Lobby of the Cal Art Building. Former Industrial Trust Building, now Bank of While there, we mentioned that we had joined the Easter displays at the Providence headquarters drew America Building, Walker & Gillette with George Chicago Art Deco Society. It turned out that Franne’s people from around the country to the Cal Art Building Frederick Hall, 1928. brother Marty has had law ofces in two of Providence’s and inspired many postcards, including one accompany- noted Art Deco buildings—the Cal Art Building and the ing this article. Te company still produces plastic fowers a president of Brown. A controversial Art Deco stain- Te tower was designed as a landing site for diri- Wayland Building—and was very knowledgeable about and fruits today. less steel and Carrera marble storefront was added in the gibles. Tere was even a dirigible waiting room in an other Art Deco sites in the state, including the old T. F. In the late 1930s, D’Agnillo commissioned architect 1930s by the Fain family, who operated a fne carpet store upper story. In the 1950s, the building was rumored Green airport terminal, the Bank of America Building Albert Harkness to design a building for Cal Art’s ofces on the frst level from 1934 to 2008. It now houses the to be the model for the Daily Planet building in The tower in downtown Providence, and the Pawtucket City Hall. and factory. Te Streamline Moderne, three-story, white Loominous Global Rug Exchange. the Superman comic book series. Locals still refer and beacon With camera in hand, we went sightseeing. brick structure has a continuous band of windows at each Te tallest building in the state, the Bank of America to it as the “Superman Building,” but Superman of the Bank of America Marty currently works in the Cal Art Building at 364 level and a tall octagonal tower. Te Cal Art name appears Building (originally the Industrial Trust Building) is 428 co-creator Joe Shuster claims the inspiration Building. Reservoir Avenue, completed in 1939 for the California on the stainless steel marquee over the entrance and again feet high with 26 foors. Te clif-like walls with their was either the Commerce Court North or the Artifcial Flower Company. Te business was founded at the top of the tower. Te Streamline design continues in progressive setbacks, a hallmark of 1920s Art Deco sky- in his native Toronto. in 1922 by Italian immigrant Michele D’Agnillo who the building’s interior. scrapers, are topped by a narrow square tower with a blue Te Bank of America Building is started out making handmade artifcial fowers and Te Wayland Building where Marty previously worked beacon. Commissioned in 1925 and opened in 1928, the also prominently featured on the selling them from a push cart in his native Tuscany. is at One Park Row, down the hill from Brown University. building has had numerous owners over the years and is skyline of the fctional city of He emigrated to the United States in 1911 with plans It was built in 1873 with an unusual feature for its time, currently locked and vacant, although Bank of America is Quahog, Rhode Island, in FOX to open a fower business in California but ran out of a tin roof that helped make it freproof. It was named for said to be considering moving its headquarters there. TV’s Family Guy series. 26 Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine Spring 2015 Pawtucket City Hall, John F. O’Malley, 1939.

Detail of the Pawtucket City Hall tower with its sculpted frieze Stylized snowy egret in the door to the terrace of the Levy House. Martini table with olive in the Levy House. and eagle reliefs.

Both the Pawtucket City Hall and the Cal Art Build- Carl Hyman designed it for attorney Arthur J. Levy in ing need expensive repairs. Te towers of both buildings 1934 of cast-concrete blocks. An article in the December leak and there is debate over whether to make the repairs 8, 1935 Providence Journal reported: or demolish the towers. “Te inevitable has happened. Modernist architecture has Original T. F. Green airport terminal, Jackson, Robertson and Adams, 1933. Te fnal stop on our personal Art Deco tour was the at last invaded the Rhode Island home building feld. … old T. F. Green airport terminal. Te airport has been One of those fantastic dwellings championed by such rebuilt and greatly expanded. Te old terminal is currently radicals as Wright, Lescaze and Le Corbusier has sprung vacant but is accessible from Airport Road in Warwick. up in a neighborhood of highly conservative homes.” Our next stop was the Pawtucket City Hall, north Named for Governor and longtime Senator Teodore Te exterior is an assembly of simple cubic forms with on Route 95. Completed in 1939, and on the National Francis Green, the airport drew the largest crowd for a a tall entrance bay that projects from the two lower side Register of Historic Places, it is something of a hybrid. Its public function in the United States when it was dedicated wings. A semicircular canopy tops the entrance. A styl- gabled roof is reminiscent of Colonial-era architecture, but in 1931. ized snowy egret leitmotif appears on the front door, the the futed pilasters of the three-story base and the sculpted Te terminal building, designed by Jackson, Robertson window above, and the door to the terrace. plaques above are decidedly Deco. Another Art Deco and Adams, was completed in 1933 and is considered the When we knocked on the door to ask the owners if feature is the 209-foot-tall tower topped by a stepped frst public building in Rhode Island designed in the Art we could take a few photos outside, we were greeted by pyramid of stainless steel. A geometric freeze embellishes Deco style. A stepped geometric design surrounds the Ed Lemire and Deb Day. Tey have owned the house the tower and eagles in high relief decorate each face just entrance bay, which projects from the side wings. Other for over 25 years and graciously invited us inside. What a Levy House in Cranston, Rhode Island, Carl Hyman, 1934. below the pyramid. Art Deco accents include the colorful banding and the wonderful experience! Te house is decorated in Art Deco Te Pawtucket City Hall is next door to another railings at the second level, which resemble those found style throughout and retains many of its original features, historic site, Slater Mill, a former textile mill complex. on ocean liners. including metal casement windows, Vitrolite glass walls, in the Cal Art building and even knows Marty; in fact, Tis birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution is Bakelite hardware, and African walnut cabinets where he saw him leaving the building the day before. Small now within the Blackstone River Valley National Histori- Ed displays his extensive Deco cocktail shaker collec- world? Maybe not. After all, little Rhode Island is almost cal Park. Te original portion of the mill dates to 1793 WE WERE STILL NOT YET READY to end our tion. Teir martini glass table comes complete with olive. like a small town itself, where everyone might be expected and was modeled after cotton mills in England. search for Deco buildings. Franne’s brother Tom led us to (What Deco home should be without one?) to know nearly everyone else living there. But as small Te park complex now includes a museum of milling the Levy House in the Edgewood neighborhood of Cran- We were excited to tell Marty about our fnd. But as it is, it’s a state with a great Deco heritage well worth machinery. ston on the shores of Narragansett Bay. Local architect before we could, we discovered that Ed too has an ofce sharing. 28 Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine Spring 2015 29 Many thanks from Partners in Preservation: Wilfredo in The Architectural Sister Sites to: Rolf Achilles Felipe Agudelo Paul Alessandro Barbara Anderson (clockwise from upper left) Matt Crawford By Kathleen Murphy Skolnik A sampling of the Art Deco architecture of Camagüey— the Alkázar movie theater (Francisco Herrero Morató, 1948), Marcia Dam Windy CiTy the Champagnat School (Claudio J. Muns Blanchart, 1940), Lisa DiChiera and the Enrique Loret de Mola house (Roberto Douglas Paula Dufy Navarrete, 1940). Teri Edelstein he seeds of the CADS initiative known as Partners accompanying this article. in Preservation: Architectural Sister Sites were Wilfredo delivered two lectures during his stay in Judy Freeman planted in 2013 during the World Congress on Art Chicago. On the evening of March 4, he spoke at the Clif Mark Allen Garzon Deco in Cuba. Tis March they started to take root Dwellers Club on the history, culture, and architecture of Diane Gonzalez when Wilfredo Rodriguez Ramos, an architect and Camagüey. Te Art Deco architecture of Camagüey was Eleanor Gorski president of the Art Deco Society in Camagüey, the topic of his second illustrated lecture on March 7 at Emily Gross traveled to Chicago. It was his frst visit to the city Roosevelt University. If you missed that lecture, you can T. Gunny Harboe and to the United States. view it at: http://roosevelt.adobeconnect.com/p77iyhnbczj/ Neil Harris Wilfredo, who is also a member of the Landmark Many architecturally signifcant sites were on Wilfredo’s T Reid Hastie Commission of Camagüey and president of the Camagüey itinerary—downtown Chicago buildings, the Powhatan Rusty Hernandez branch of DOCOMO, the organization dedicated to Apartments, and Oak Park, to name a few. He had a the Documentation and Conservation of the Modern hard-hat tour of the Chicago Motor Club, now being Beth Johnson Movement, had been our principal guide in a World converted to a Hilton Garden Inn, and he learned about Amy Keller Congress post-program tour of Camagüey two years ago. the restoration of the Rookery and the Board of Trade. He Conk Leibig CADS members who took the Camagüey tour were heard about adaptive reuse of the former Reliance Building Rachel Leibowitz impressed by the city’s outstanding collection of Art Deco to the Burnham Hotel and of Carson Pirie Scott & Co. to Linda Levendusky buildings, primarily small residences, and the commitment the Sullivan Center. Joe Loundy of Camagüey preservationists to conserve this legacy. Wilfredo attended the March meeting of the Aracely Nevarez Our similar interests and goals led to the development of Commission on Chicago Landmarks and met the Bridget O’Keefe Partners in Preservation. Te objective of the program is to commissioners. Later he joined representatives of the Restoration architect T. Gunny Harboe and The State of Illinois Building was among the stops on a Spanish- Eric O’Malley establish a dialogue between preservation professionals and Chicago Department of Planning and Development to Wilfredo at the former Carson Pirie Scott & language tour of the Loop with Chicago greeter Zebrak. activists in Camagüey and Chicago for the mutual beneft discuss the landmark designation process in Chicago and Co. store. Jonathan Orlove of both cities. I think Wilfredo’s visit to Chicago and the Camagüey. Jef Owczarek contacts he made here were major steps toward fulflling Another highlight of Wilfredo’s visit was a meeting Bobbi Pinkert this goal. with faculty members and students from the Preservation Joan Pomeranc Te response of CADS members and Chicago’s Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Tis Daniel Ronan architectural and preservation community to Wilfredo’s discussion was hopefully the frst step in a student exchange Cynthia Roubik visit—and to Wilfredo—was overwhelming. Architects, program between Chicago and Camagüey. Anthony Rubano educators, preservationists, guides, and translators So many of the Chicagoans who met Wilfredo are Luis Salces generously shared their time and knowledge with him. eager to return the exchange and visit Cuba. How about a Natalia Salces Te names of the many individuals who helped make his CADS-sponsored trip? Late 2015, maybe? To Camagüey, visit so successful and rewarding appear in the sidebar Cienfuegos, and Havana? Tal vez si. Akib Shiliwala Jorge Soler Anne Sullivan Wilfredo’s tour with T. Gunny Harboe included Paul Alessandro of Hartshorne Plunkard, CADS Preservation Chair Trish VanderBeke a visit to the vault in the basement of the Amy Keller, Wilfredo, and Kathleen Murphy Skolnik at the Chicago Mimi Zebrak Board of Trade. Motor Club.

30 Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine Spring 2015 31 LOOkING BACk... TO MOvE AHEAD The history of our Society from our earliest members

Articles focused on Chicago and beyond. Topics covered under The Chuck Kaplan Era: - Fall 1991–Fall 2000 ern and Gilbert Rhode designs; Roseville, Rockwood, and Red Wing Art Deco ; the work of Alfonso Iannelli; Art Deco at Brook- By Ruth Dearborn vintage rattan furniture; cocktail shakers; the work of Norman Bel When it became obvious that Geddes; Clarice Cliff ceramics; Art Deco posters; smoking parapher- president of the Chicago Art Deco columns on luminaries from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Society, was becoming inundated In Summer 1997, the CADS publication took on a whole new with the slow but sure growth of appearance by introducing color covers, both front and back. From CADS the organization and CADS, then on, with the exception of occasional vintage black-and-white the group’s publication, Chuck photos, color covers became the norm for what was now the Chicago Kaplan stepped up. Writing in the Art Deco Society Magazine. The magazine has continued to be a sought October 1991 issue of CADS, after publication with in-depth articles and listings of upcoming events as president, Chuck acknowledged in the United States and abroad. Lynn’s contributions: “Through her CADS programs during the Kaplan era represented a broad range diligent networking efforts, CADS of interests. Members enjoyed a private tour of the Motorola Museum is recognized as one of the most Ruth Dearborn, CADS in Schaumburg where they saw Motorola products from the 1920s important Art Deco organizations in Historian and Board Member. to the present. They learned about Lalique perfume bottles from the USA and beyond its borders.” expert Glenn Utt at the C. D. Peacock store at Northbrook Court, Lynn had a special interest in architecture and sculpture in the Chi- and heard about Frank Lloyd Wright’s unbuilt designs at a program cago area, but Chuck approached Art Deco from an entirely different at Seymour Persky’s house. Liz and Jack Wilson opened their home direction. He was a collector, and his Highland Park home was an for a tour of their Phoenix and Consolidated Glass collection, which Art Deco showplace for the many objects he had acquired: glassware included examples from the “Ruba Rombic” line, and Rick and Jennifer from the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition, Whiting mesh purses, Bugner invited members to view their industrial design collection. furnishings from ocean liners, a large blue-mirrored glass Nocturne In 1999, CADS offered radio designed by Walter Dorwin Teague, and much more. His home a limited-edition poster of was featured in many publications, and he and his wife Julie frequently the Greyhound Terminal in welcomed CADS members to their house to view their collections. Evansville, Indiana created by CADS Board of Chicago designer and CADS Directors, October member Curt Hamilton. 1991. Seated, Ruth Another CADS original was Dearborn, President a limited-edition, handcrafted Chuck Kaplan, Julie sterling silver pin designed by Stephens; standing, long-time member and artist, Karen Koblik, Jim the late Jim Romano. The pin Romano. was a gift for members who joined at the patron level. Limited-edition poster of the Evansville, (I’ve donated mine to the Indiana Greyhound Terminal created for CADS archives, which are CADS by Curt Hamilton. CADS continued to grow under Chuck’s leadership. By the housed at the Chicago His- December 1992 Annual Meeting, membership was 322. CADS’ tory Museum.) involvement with the Winnetka Modernism Show and the Chicago In the Winter 1999 issue Modernism Show further increased exposure of the group and of CADS Magazine, Chuck Limited-edition attracted more new members. announced that his upcoming sterling silver pin In addition to his role as president, Chuck was also the editor term would be his last. He designed by of CADS, which he expanded both in length and breadth. When the was stepping aside to let new Jim Romano Autumn 1992 issue reached 16 pages, Chuck relabeled it a "quarterly leadership lead CADS into a for CADS patrons. publication" rather than a "newsletter." new century.

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Panel from The Birth of Aphrodite (Jean Dupas and Charles Champigneulle, 1934) for the grand salon of the SS Normandie, now in the Chicago residence of Richard H. Driehaus.

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