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Coffee pot with Lid
Coffee Pot
"Bizarre" Jam Pot with Cover
American Modern
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The angular form and boldly abstract graphic patterning of this coffeepot are characteristic of Czech Cubism. This important movement, which originated about 1911, attempted to create a new aesthetic language by applying the polemics of Analytic Cubist painting to architecture and design. The resulting highly stylized designs are as innovative and startling by today's standards as they were in their own time. Janák was a co-founder of Artel, an avant-garde manufacturing cooperative in Prague that strove to improve levels of artistry and taste in everyday life. The firm produced a wide range of household objects by Czech Cubist designers.
Marking: [on bottom]: [illegible, possibly: PJ B/3]; [within "house" shaped mark] ARTEL [standard Artel logo].
Purchased from Historical Design, New York, NY
Von Vegesack, Alexander, et al. Czech Cubism: Architecture, Furniture, and Decorative Arts 1910-1925, Exhibition catalogue, organized 1991 by the Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague and Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992, pp. 285, 287.
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