The Jazz Age at the Cooper Hewitt

Monday morning Christian and I headed off to the Cooper Hewitt Museum to see the exhibit The Jazz Age.

Here's more about it:

The first major museum exhibition to focus on American taste during the creative explosion of the 1920s, The Jazz Age is a multi-media experience of more than 400 examples of interior design, industrial design, decorative art, jewelry, fashion, and architecture, as well as related music and film. Giving full expression to the decade’s diversity and dynamism, The Jazz Age defines the American spirit of the period.

During the 1920s, the influences that fueled design’s burst of innovation, exoticism, and modernity were manifold and flowed back and forth across the Atlantic. Jazz music, a uniquely American art form, also found a ready audience in Europe. An apt metaphor for the decade’s embrace of urbanity and experimentation, jazz captured the pulse and rich mixture of cultures and rhythms that brought a new beat to contemporary life.

Organized into the themes of Persistence of Traditional “Good Taste,” A New Look for Familiar Forms, Bending the Rules, A Smaller World, Abstraction and Reinvention, and Toward a Machine Age and presented on two floors of the museum, The Jazz Age highlights the dynamic changes in American taste and lifestyles that prompted an outpouring of design and heralded an exhilarating new era.

The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s is co-organized by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Where possible I've included information on the particular piece in the photo.

Armoire, ca. 1926

This is a Armoire. It was manufactured by Company of Mastercraftsmen and retailed by W. and J. Sloane.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
It is dated ca. 1926. Its medium is thuyawood, mahogany, satinwood, plastic, ebony.

In 1926 recent acquisitions of Ruhlmann furniture were displayed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Company of Master Craftsmen used these new pieces as inspiration to adapt high-style French designs to American tastes, in sizes appropriate for apartment living.

Covered Jar, Clochettes Mauves, 1931

This is a Covered jar, Clochettes mauves. It was designed by Henri Rapin and produced by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory and decorated by Agnes Moreau-Jouin.

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 Cleveland Museum of Art as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
It is dated 1931. Its medium is porcelain with colored pâte-sur-pâte, glazes, and gilding.

While this jar's form is based on that of a traditional Chinese ginger jar, its decoration resembles the oversized flower and leaf textiles patterns of Raoul Dufy. This form was introduced at the Sèvres factory in 1925, and the Clochettes Mauves pattern is listed in the Sèvres archives as the twelfth project approved in 1929.

This is a mirror. It was designed by Paul Fehér and made by Rose Iron Works Collections, LLC.

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 Rose Iron Works Collections, LLC.
It is dated ca. 1930. Its medium is wrought iron, brass, silver, gold plating, glass.

This monumental wrought-iron console and mirror won top prize at the 1931 May Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art, though it remained unsold in the Rose Iron Works studio as the Depression took hold.

Console Table, ca. 1930

This is a console table. It was designed by Paul Fehér and made by Rose Iron Works Collections, LLC.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Rose Iron Works Collections, LLC as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
It is dated ca. 1930. Its medium is wrought iron, brass, glass.

This monumental wrought-iron console and mirror won top prize at the 1931 May Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art, though it remained unsold in the Rose Iron Works studio as the Depression took hold.