A Roaring Celebration of Design in the Jazz Age
See highlights from the Cooper Hewitt museum’s exhibition on Jazz Age design
There’s only a little more than a week until the Cooper Hewitt museum’s exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s ends on Aug. 20. But don’t worry, we’ve selected some of the show’s standout pieces in case you can’t make it to New York City in the next few days.
This privacy screen featuring an image of a woman holding a violin was designed by Paul Fehér in 1930. The piece is made of of wrought iron, brass, and silver and gold plating. Rose Iron Works in Cleveland, which is still in operation, constructed it.
Designed by Frederick Kiesler in 1933, this furniture piece is designed to wrap around the corner of a twin mattress, serving as a functional headboard. Featuring a task light, shelf and swing-arm table, and made of birch-faced plywood and nickel-plated steel, it makes working in bed a breeze.
Check out the alluring angles of this dressing table and bench designed by Léon Jallot in 1929. The red lacquered set was once sold at Lord & Taylor department stores.
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The elegant Mystery Clock was produced by high-end jewelry and accessories store Cartier in the 1920s. The luxurious piece is made of gold, platinum, ebonite, citrine, diamonds and enamel.
As skyscrapers began sprouting up in cities across the United States, furniture designers were inspired by their impressive silhouettes. This Skyscraper Bookcase Desk was designed by Paul T. Frankl in 1928. The piece is made of California redwood and black lacquer.
Suzanne Lalique-Haviland designed this stunning glass vase for her father, the renowned glass artist René Lalique, in 1926. The vase features pressed, carved, acid-etched and enameled glass.
As new technologies became more mainstream, their designs became artistic. The AD-65 Radio was designed by Wells Wintemute Coates in 1932 and manufactured by E.K. Cole in 1934. It’s made of compression-molded Bakelite, chromium-plated metal and a woven textile.
Antiquity and cosmopolitan design both play a role on the doors of the former music room of Solomon R. Guggenheim and Irene Rothschild Guggenheim. Designed by Séraphin Soudbinine in 1925, the carved doors are made of lacquered wood, mother-of-pearl, gold leaf and cast bronze.
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“Exploring the significant impact of European influences, the explosive growth of American cities, avant-garde artistic movements, new social mores and the role of technology, The Jazz Age will seek to define the American spirit of the period,” Cooper Hewitt director Caroline Baumann says.
The punch bowl seen here, called The New Yorker and designed by Viktor Schreckengost in 1931, has the word jazz emblazoned on its exterior. The piece is made from molded earthenware that has been glazed.