More of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s athe Cooper Hewitt

Painting, View of the Chrysler Building, 1933

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Museum of the City of New York as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
It is dated 1933. Its medium is oil on canvas.

The Chrysler Building appears as a beacon of light above humble buildings as a paean to the glories of the pre-Crash skyscraper.

Tea And Coffee Service, Rhythm, 1929

This is a Tea and Coffee Service. It was designed by Percy B. Ball and manufactured by R. Wallace & Sons Manufacturing Company.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Dallas Museum of Art as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
It is dated 1929. Its medium is silver, plastic.

Born near Birmingham, England, Percy Ball immigrated with his family to Providence, Rhode Island. From 1893 Ball worked at Gorham while studying painting. His career included work for major American silver manufacturers such as Wallace, for whom this Rhythm pattern was a modern departure in its attenuated lines and plastic accents.

This is a chandelier. It was designed by William Hunt Diederich.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from The Newark Museum as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
It is dated ca. 1925. Its medium is cut steel and wrought iron.

Diederich modernized the silhouette in domestic ironwork, adding American folk art elements to produce stylized representations, often of animals.

Cubic Coffee Service, 1927

This is a Cubic Coffee service. It was designed by Erik Magnussen and manufactured by Gorham Manufacturing Company.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It has been able to spend time at the museum on loan from Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design.
It is dated 1927. Its medium is silver with gilding and ivory.

Erik Magnussen’s Cubic coffee service for Gorham is radically different from the more traditional work he produced independently. Introduced in November 1927 as “The Lights and Shadows of Manhattan,” the set visually connects to skyscraper furniture and objects produced that year.