Silverplate cups
These striking silver cups are iconic of the geometric styling of French Art Deco metalware. The meeting between wood and silver in addition to angular forms exemplifies Maison Desny’s particular formal vocabulary within modern design. Maison Desny, a design house based in Paris, offered complete and rigorously modernist interiors for their elite clientele. Prominent artists and designers such as Andre Masson, Alberto and Diego Giacometti, and Madame Djo-Bourgeois, were often contracted to collaborate on larger projects. However, today it is for their metalware objects that are characterized by a distinct avant-garde style of geometric configurations and perpendicular shapes that the firm is most celebrated.
Artwork Details
- Title: Silverplate cups
- Manufacturer: Maison Desny (French, 1927–1933)
- Date: ca. 1927–33
- Medium: Silverplate and wood
- Dimensions: 2 1/4 × 5 in. (5.7 × 12.7 cm)
2 1/4 × 5 in. (5.7 × 12.7 cm) - Classification: Silver
- Credit Line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2020
- Object Number: 2021.54.33.1, .2
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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