F A L L 2 0 1 3 Major Art Deco Retrospective Opens in Paris at the Palais de Chaillot… page 11 The Carlu Gatsby’s Fashions Denver 1926 Pittsburgh IN THIS ISSUE in Toronto and Jewelry Deco Pavilion IN THIS ISSUE FALL 2013 FEATURE ARTICLES “Degenerate” Ceramics Revisited By Rolf Achilles . 7 Outside the Museum Doors By Linda Levendusky . 10. Prepare to be Dazzled: Major Art Deco Retrospective Opens in Paris . 11. Art Moderne in Toronto: The Carlu on the Tenth Anniversary of Its Restoration By Scott Weir . .14 Fashions and Jewels of the Jazz Age Sparkle in Gatsby Film By Annette Bochenek . .17 Denver Deco By David Wharton . 20 An Unlikely Art Deco Debut: The Pittsburgh Pavilion at the 1926 Philadelphia Sesquicentennial International Exposition By Dawn R. Reid . 24 A Look Inside… The Art Deco Poster . 27 The Architecture of Barry Byrne: Taking the Prairie School to Europe . 29 REGULAR FEATURES President’s Message . .3 CADS Recap . 4. Deco Preservation . .6 Deco Spotlight . .8 Fall 2013 1 Custom Fine Jewelry and Adaptation of Historic Designs A percentage of all sales will benefit CADS. Mention this ad! Best Friends Elevating Deco Diamonds & Gems Demilune Stacker CADS Member Karla Lewis, GG, AJP, (GIA) Zig Zag Deco By Appointment 29 East Madison, Chicago u [email protected] 312-269-9999 u Mobile: 312-953-1644 bestfriendsdiamonds.com Engagement Rings u Diamond Jewelry u South Sea Cultured Pearl Jewelry and Strands u Custom Designs 2 Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine CADS Board of Directors Joseph Loundy President Amy Keller Vice President PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Susanne Petersson Secretary Mary Miller Treasurer Ruth Dearborn Ann Marie Del Monico Steve Hickson Conrad Miczko Dear CADS Members, Kevin Palmer Since I last wrote to you in April, there have been several important personnel changes at CADS . Glenn Rogers Bill Sandstrom First of all, Keith Bringe, who headed both the Art Deco book and Art Deco survey project since their inception in 2008, has stepped back from the leadership position on the book project in order to devote CADS Advisory Board more time to a new job opportunity . He will continue to direct the survey project . Richard Goisman Bob Bruegmann and Bob Blandford have assumed editorial and administrative leadership of the book, Katherine Hamilton-Smith respectively . Building upon the foundation created by Keith and consulting with the Editorial Advisory Seymour Persky Board, they are working closely with the book’s publisher, Michael Williams of CityFiles Press, and with me . Web Master For those of you who don’t know Bob Blandford, he is an associate professor in the Arts, Entertainment, Barry Birnbaum and Media Management Department at Columbia College Chicago . Before joining the faculty at Columbia College in 2006, he held senior positions at museums and cultural institutions including the Museum of CADS Magazine the City of New York and the National Building Museum in Washington, D C. Bob began his career here Editor in Chicago at the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois, now Landmarks Illinois . Kathleen Murphy Skolnik Bob Bruegmann, distinguished professor emeritus of Art History, Architecture, and Urban Planning Graphic Designer at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is the author of numerous books and articles including a three- Maureen S . Donahue volume catalogue of the work of Holabird & Roche and Holabird & Root; the award-winning volume The Architects and the City: Holabird & Roche of Chicago, 1880-1918, published by The University of Chicago Contributing Writers Press in 1997; Sprawl: A Compact History, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2005; and, most Rolf Achilles recently, The Architecture of Harry Weese, published by W . W . Norton in 2010 . Annette Bochenek Linda Levendusky Keith’s contributions to the survey project and the book project that grew out of it have been Dawn R . Reid extraordinary and defining. In July 2008, Keith joined the project, assembling an Editorial Advisory Board of leading scholars, historians and community members . A major product of his tenure is the Survey Scott Weir Digital Archive that now comprises over 12,000 archival and contemporary images, databases, and David Wharton documents. Keith also supported the development of a preservation program for CADS and testified Copy Editor / Proofreader on the successful preliminary landmark designation for the Chicago Motor Club Building . In 2012, after Linda Levendusky a competitive process that drew major international publishers interested in publishing the Art Deco Chicago book, CADS developed a publishing partnership with CityFiles Press . Director of Advertising JoAnn Cannon We are grateful to Keith for all of his hard work and accomplishments, and we are pleased that that he will continue his work with the survey project, which we hope will eventually become an online resource . Front cover: Cité de l’architecture at the Palais de I want to welcome JoAnn Cannon to our magazine production team as the new director of advertising . Chaillot in Paris (Louis-Hippolyte Boileau, JoAnn brings thirty years of advertising sales experience to this new position . You can see from the Jacques Carlu, and Léon Azéma,1937), the new ads in this issue that she is off to a great start . We encourage you to support our advertisers site of 1925, When Art Deco Dazzled the whenever possible . the World, the major Art Deco retrospec- Finally, I want to welcome Mark Garzon as the new director of social media . Mark has a real grasp tive opening this month. of social media and knows how to get the maximum benefit from this rapidly growing medium. He is © Copyright Chicago Art Deco Society 2013 passionate about our Facebook page, which he updates on a daily basis . Be sure to “like” Chicago Art All material is subject to copyright and cannot be reproduced without prior written permission from Deco Society on Facebook . the publisher . Best, THE CHicago Art DECO SOCIETY (CADS) IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT 501(C)3 taX EXEMPT ORGANIZation CHartered IN THE State OF ILLINOIS IN 1982 FOR THE PURPOSE OF education, PRESERVation AND FELLOWSHIP . Joseph Loundy, President P .O . Box 1116 October 2013 Evanston, IL 60204-1116 312-280-9097 www .chicagoartdecosociety .com Fall 2013 3 CADS RECAP A look back at the Society’s spring and summer events CADS Hosts Modern by Design Book Signing and Tour of Modernism’s Messengers In early August, CADS hosted a book signing at the Cliff Dwellers Club with ArchiTech gallery owner David Jameson, author of the recently released Alfonso Cover, Alfonso Iannelli: Modern Iannelli: Modern by Design . by Design. The 384-page publication David Jameson at the Cliff marks the first Tim Samuelson welcomes CADS members to the Modernism’s Messengers Dwellers Club comprehensive exhibition. Photo by Bennett Johnson. monograph on book signing. this influential Photo by Bennett modernist Johnson. down . After that time, she never State Hospital . During the initial artist . again lived with her husband and stages of her hospitalization she children . Nor did she return to created illustrations for The Hos- The text traces Iannelli’s career Samuelson characterized the Iannelli Studios, although she pital Messenger, the institution’s from his poster designs for the exhibition as a love story—the continued to work independently newsletter, but by 1935, she could Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles love between Alfonso and Mar- and Alfonso often referred com- no longer work . She remained to his zodiac figures for the Adler garet Iannelli and the couple’s missions to her . Samuelson’s institutionalized until her death in Planetarium, his iconic industrial love of modernism . They believed exhibition design expressed the 1966, one year after Alfonso died . designs for Sunbeam and Oster in modernism for everybody break between the couple by electric appliances, and his Rock of and they applied modernism to dividing the final gallery into two Alfonso and Margaret were Gibraltar relief for the Prudential everything . The two met in Los separate areas—Alfonso’s indus- largely forgotten after their Building (see review in CADS Angeles, where Alfonso had trial designs, Century of Progress deaths, but the book Alfonso Magazine, Spring 2013) . Beautifully opened Iannelli Studios in 1912 . projects, and Rock of Gibraltar Iannelli: Modern by Design and the designed by Eric O’Malley and The young Margaret Spaulding relief on one side and Margaret’s exhibition Modernism’s Masters: published by Top Five Books, joined the Studios, where she fashion illustration and graphic The Art of Alfonso and Margaret Alfonso Iannelli: Modern by Design worked on such commissions design projects on the other . Iannelli are helping to raise aware- includes more than 350 full-color as the hand-painted posters for ness of these talented pioneers plates as well as historic black-and- the Orpheum Theater . In 1914, In 1929, at age thirty-six, Marga- of modernism and their ground- n white photographs . Alfonso relocated temporarily to ret was committed to the Elgin breaking designs . Chicago to work with Frank Lloyd Prior to the book signing, Wright on sculptures for Midway members gathered at the Chi- Gardens, leaving Iannelli Studios Orpheum cago Cultural Center where Tim in Margaret’s hands . Theater Samuelson, cultural historian of posters, the City of Chicago, led a gallery After marrying in 1915, Alfonso Iannelli tour of the exhibition Modernism’s and Margaret moved permanently Studios, 1914. Messengers: The Art of Alfonso and to Chicago, where they located Photos by Margaret Iannelli, which closed Iannelli Studios at the “tip top” of Kathleen this past August . The exhibition, Michigan Avenue’s Monroe Build- Murphy curated by Samuelson, featured a ing before moving to the suburb Skolnik. wide array of the Iannellis’ work, of Park Ridge four years later . But including sculptures, graphic and Margaret was beginning to display product designs, and architectural signs of mental instability, and in ornaments .