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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Silvertone Model 6110 Rocket radio (1938) designed by Clarence Karstadt in black Bakelite for Sears, Roebuck and Co. and the “Normandie” Water Pitcher (1935) designed by Peter Müller-Munk for Revere Copper and Brass Co.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Chris’ latest Golden Nugget Flea Market find - a circa early 1930s Art Deco, silver plate tray by the Swedish company Guldsmedsaktiebolaget (GAB).

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Photographed on a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art this tea service was designed by Eliel Saarinen for the International Silver Co., (1932). Production sets were in silver plate, this was Saarinen’s personal set. He preferred the appearance of brass and had his own set plated accordingly.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

The Diplomat coffee service, designed by Walter Von Nessen. Chase, Brass and Copper Specialty line. I picked up the coffee pot, sugar and creamer four years ago. The hunt was on for the chrome and Bakelite tray. Chris finally found the one last month at the Golden Nugget last month.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Another recent Golden Nugget Flea Market find - a mid-1930s Park Sherman roll top cigarette box.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Another recent Golden Nugget Flea Market find by Chris, two 1931 Avon Fillkwik compacts.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

From our 2014 Texas trip, Viktor Schreckengost’s New Yorker “Jazz Bowl” punch bowl (1931). This one from the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art was the first time we saw one in person.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

1. Wassily Chair - Marcel Breuer, 1925 and Eileen Gray Side Table - Eileen Gray, 1927. 2. Le Petit Confort LC2 Armchair - Le Corbusier, 1928. 3. Barcelona Chair - Mies van der Rohe & Lilly Reich, 1929. 4. Brno Chair - Mies van der Rohe & Lilly Reich, 1930.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

From our last month’s visit to the Nassau County Museum of Art to see their Deco at 100 exhibit. This Paul Follot’s (1877-1941) 1925 Paris Exhibition Cabinet, Macassar, ebony and ivory.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

A photo from my 2017 visit to the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Circa 1934 Air King “Skyscraper” radio. Manufactured by the Air-King Products Company of Brooklyn and made of cream colored Plaskon. Designed by Harold Van Doren and John Gordon Rideout.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Rose Iron Works, Cleveland, Ohio. Mirror (1930) of wrought iron, brass, silver, gold plating and glass. Console table (1930) wrought iron, brass and glass. Both pieces designed by Paul Feher. Shadow on the wall cast from etched glass table top. From the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Chris’ latest Golden Nugget Flea Market find, a Lenox 1939 New York World’s Fair vase made exclusively for Ovington’s NYC Fifth Avenue store.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Copper light stands in front of the West Herr Auditorium (1929) in Rochester, NY.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

To close out Art Deco month here is a photo from our visit to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Three frescoes of Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals (1932-1933). This mural represents laborers at the Ford River Rouge plant. On April 23, 2014 the murals were designated a National Historic Landmark.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Another photo from my 2016 tour of the Radio City Music Hall. The Grand Foyer looking northeast toward Ezra Winter’s mural The Fountain of Youth. Edward Durell Stone, architect, Donald Deskey interior design, the theatre opened in late 1932.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

For World Art Deco Day, a photo I took of William Van Alen’s Chrysler Building back in 2016 before it was obscured by newer, taller and far less elegant buildings. The Chrysler Building has been one of my favorite buildings since I was a small boy.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Multicolor, geometric tiles, terrazzo floors and Art Deco brass vent grilles in the lobby of the Bottleworks Hotel in Indianapolis. Photo from when I stayed there last summer.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

1933 Century of Progress, Chicago World’s Fair poster by Glenn C. Sheffer (1881 - 1948). Photo from the 2023 Art for the Millions exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Pochoir print. Typical style of mid to late 1920s with its elaborate, stylized background and 18th century subject matter. Still in its original matte and frame.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

From our visit to the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal in February, 2024. Booth dividers in the former Rookwood Tearoom (1933) now the Rookwood Ice Cream Parlor. The fanciful tiles were designed by William E. Hentschel.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

My 1937 Nu-Dell Style Chart tie rack. By turning the knob the chart tells you what color shirt and suit matches the color of the tie you choose.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica, Royal Oak, Michigan. Named in honor of St. Therese de Lisieux and designed by architect Henry J. McGill. It was completed in 1936.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

A photo from my 2014 visit to the Dallas Museum of Art of a Warren Telechron 431 Modernique. Designed by Paul Frankl in 1928, it originally sold for $50.00 and was nicknamed the Fifty Dollar clock. This clock is on my most wanted list.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

1930s barware from my Chase Chrome collection, Iced Drink cups, Stirring Cocktail Mixer and spoon, Old Fashion Cups and Old Fashion muddlers.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

A photo from 2019 when I was passing through Rockford, Illinois. The polychrome terracotta Liebling Building (aka the Jackson Piano Building), built circa, 1930.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Painted ceiling and frosted glass and metal light in the wonderful Fisher Building, Detroit, Michigan (Albert Kahn, 1928).

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

From the 2017 exhibit “The Jazz Age” at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, this 1928 K.E.M. Weber sideboard and Chair and 1934 Ekco AD-65 radio designed by Wells Coates. #artdeco #artdecoradio #kemweber #ekcoradio #wellscoates #cooperhewitt

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal. The former Women’s Lounge Alcove, featuring a spectacular jungle theme mural of carved linoleum created in 1933 by Pierre Bourdelle (1901 - 1966).

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

More French Art Deco glass from our collection four cordial glasses with enamel work by Antonin Adrien Mazoyer, circa 1930.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

A French, yellow satin glass Art Deco vase from our collection.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

From my collection, a streamline moderne 1934 Royal Rochester chrome plated electric percolator coffee urn. #dailydeco #artdeco #streamlinemoderne #royalrochester #vintagekitchenware

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

From an October, 2023 trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the Art for the Millions exhibit. Revere chrome “Manhattan Cocktail Ensemble” (1937) design attributed to Norman Bel Geddes.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

A 2016 photo I took of the RCA Building (1933) now known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Raymond Hood, architect. Framing it is The British Empire Building on the right and La Maison Francaise on the left, both completed in 1934. All part of Rockefeller Center. #artdeco #rockefellercenter #raymondhood

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Power: The Nerve Centre of London’s Underground (1931), by Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954). This was part of the Poster House 2023 exhibition of Art Deco posters.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Another piece from our recent visit to the Corning Museum of Glass, Le Jour et la nuit (Day and Night) Designed in 1926 by René Lalique, mold-pressed, acid-etched glass on a metal base.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A not too Deco piece from my Chase Brass & Copper Co. collection. The Sconce Light, a battery operated candle that was in production from 1939 - 1942. Clearly more colonial revival in spirit than modern, the addition of the 1939 New York World’s Fair plaque is what caught my eye.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

MEN WITHOUT WOMEN, by Stuart Davis, 1932. The mural is located in the men’s lounge on the lower level of Radio City Music Hall. This photo is from a 2016 tour I took of the theatre.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

First National Pictures 1930 version of LILIES OF THE FIELD. Starring Corrine Griffith and directed by Alexander Korda, no prints or negatives of the film are known to exist. Stills from the Stills, Posters and Paper Collection - Moving Image Department, George Eastman Museum.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Corner of my bedroom dresser with a 1940 Coulter copper table lamp, 1934 Ronson Mastercase lighter and Ronson Art Metal Athena bookend, pair of chrome and plastic hair brushes and a 1935 Chase Aristocrat ashtray.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

One of our last Golden Nugget flea market finds of 2024, an Oscar B. Bach (1884-1957) aluminum charger, circa 1935. This is one of a series that feature stylized animals, this one featuring an Art Deco dolphin.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Detail of brass railing in the Hall of Mirrors at the Netherland Plaza Hotel (1931), Cincinnati, Ohio.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

From the collection of the George Eastman Museum, 1930 Kodak Coquette. The front panel features an enameled lightning bolt and was sold with a matching lipstick and powder compact. The frontispiece was designed by industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

One of my Fostoria Flame double candle holders (1938-1944) in topaz.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Another photo my February, 2024 visit to the Hilton Netherland Plaza in Cincinnati. The Rookwood fountain at one end of the Palm Court.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio. A recently uncovered “frozen fountain” metal, wall grille in the style of Edgar Brandt. This is in the Julep Room, originally the wedding chapel, then a cocktail lounge and now a conference room.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Ending 2024 by adding some more vintage 1930s / 1940s Fiesta pieces to my everyday china. Picked up the following: 8 1/2” turquoise nappy, red, green & yellow deep plates, red & green dinner plates, turquoise luncheon plate, turquoise salad plate and 2 yellow cream soup bowls.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

From a 2023 visit to the Henry Ford Museum - a 1960 McDonald’s sign, originally in Madison Heights, Michigan and a 1956 Chevy Bel Air convertible.

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DrivingforDeco @drivingfordeco.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

The Little Theatre, Rochester, NY. Marquee and vertical neon sign.

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