Front cover of a Tiffany Desk Sets trade catalog from Tiffany Studios, New York which includes Includes lamps, magnifying glasses, frames, vases, and ashtrays. ca. 1910. American. Tiffany Publications and Ephemeral Materials Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. In the public domain due to age. via https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll5/id/1175/rec/17 ABALONE DESK SET. This is a bronze set of beautiful workmanship, highly finished in soft gold or silver with incised lines of tonal color following the conventionalized pattern of the design. This ornament surrounds discs of the natural Abalone shell embedded in the metal. DESCRIPTION: Lamp – gold only; Shade; Pen Holder; Photograph Frame, 6 “ x 8 1/2; Match Safe, no stand; Photograph Frame, 10” x 14”; Inkstand, small; Paper Rack; Blotter Ends, 19” x 24” Pad; Blotter Ends, 12’ x 9” Pad; Blotter Corners; Letter Rack; Inkstand; Stamp Box; Pen Tray; Pen Brush; Paper Knife; Rocker Blotter; Letter Clip; Calendar (Perpetual); Thermometer; Memoranda Pad, plain or dated; Letter Scales; Photograph Frame; Book Ends; Utility Box; Reading Glass; Photograph Frame (Cabinet). Pages 2 and 3 of a Tiffany Desk Sets trade catalog from Tiffany Studios, New York which includes Includes lamps, magnifying glasses, frames, vases, and ashtrays. ca. 1910. American. Tiffany Publications and Ephemeral Materials Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. In the public domain due to age. via https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll5/id/1178/rec/17A FEW EXAMPLES OF THE MANY AND VARIED PRODUCTS OF THE TIFFANY STUDIOS. TABLE FERNERIES 11” AND 12” IN DIAMETER FILLED WITH REMOVABLE PANS. List #833 Etched Metal over glass Price $50.00; List #834 Heavy Bronze, Marsh-marigold design Price $55.00; List #1701 Etched Metal, gold finish with color inlay, Price $28.00. FLOWER HOLDERS – Bronze bases surmounted by Favrile Glass Vases, various prices. COMFORTS AND CARD TRAYS – Etched metal with and without Abalone shell inlay, from $5.00 up. ASH RECEIVERS of heavy bronze, single and in nests; varied color finishes, from $5.00 up. Pages 26 and 27 of a Tiffany Desk Sets trade catalog from Tiffany Studios, New York which includes Includes lamps, magnifying glasses, frames, vases, and ashtrays. ca. 1910. American. Tiffany Publications and Ephemeral Materials Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. In the public domain https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll5/id/1202/rec/17Bronze Smokers Stands, stationary or adjustable, fitted with removable Favrile Glass Bowls. Green or brown finish: #1651, $50.00; #1652, $75.00; #1650, $50.00; #1649, $38.00. Gold finish: #1651 $63.00 #1652, $94.00; #1650, $63.00; #1649, $48.00. Page 28 of a Tiffany Desk Sets trade catalog from Tiffany Studios, New York which includes Includes lamps, magnifying glasses, frames, vases, and ashtrays. ca. 1910. American. Tiffany Publications and Ephemeral Materials Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. In the public domain https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll5/id/1202/rec/17Bronze Candlesticks. Finished in green or gold or bronze. Page 29 of a Tiffany Desk Sets trade catalog from Tiffany Studios, New York which includes Includes lamps, magnifying glasses, frames, vases, and ashtrays. ca. 1910. American. Tiffany Publications and Ephemeral Materials Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. In the public domain https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll5/id/1202/rec/17LOUIS XVI DESK SET. Lovers of French Art will find in this set an expression of the exquisite delicacy of this Period. Set finished in dull gold. DESCRIPTION: Lamp – Shade extra; Pen Holder; Blotter Ends, 12” x 19” Pad; Pen Tray; Utility Box; Paper Knife; Inkstand; Paper Rack; Pad Holder, plain or engagement; Rocker Blotter; Calendar. Page 16 and 17 of a Tiffany Desk Sets trade catalog from Tiffany Studios, New York which includes Includes lamps, magnifying glasses, frames, vases, and ashtrays. ca. 1910. American. Tiffany Publications and Ephemeral Materials Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. In the public domain https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll5/id/1202/rec/17
Loggia. Richard Riemerschmid-Pasing (architect). Page 56 of 320 Abbildungen moderner Landhäuser aus Deutschland, Österreich, England, und Finnland, mit Grundrissen und Innenräumen. 1905. Published in Münich by F. Bruckmann A.-G with an introductory text by Hermann Muthesius. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/dasmodernelandha00muth/page/56/mode/1upDiele. Max Hans Kühne, Dresden, architect. Page 61 of 320 Abbildungen moderner Landhäuser aus Deutschland, Österreich, England, und Finnland, mit Grundrissen und Innenräumen. 1905. Published in Münich by F. Bruckmann A.-G with an introductory text by Hermann Muthesius. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/dasmodernelandha00muth/page/61/mode/1upHalle (Vgl Grundrisz Seite 52). Meier and Bredow – Berlin, architects. Page 66 of 320 Abbildungen moderner Landhäuser aus Deutschland, Österreich, England, und Finnland, mit Grundrissen und Innenräumen. 1905. Published in Münich by F. Bruckmann A.-G with an introductory text by Hermann Muthesius. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/dasmodernelandha00muth/page/66/mode/1upHerrenzimmer. Bruno Paul, Münich. Page 79 of of 320 Abbildungen moderner Landhäuser aus Deutschland, Österreich, England, und Finnland, mit Grundrissen und Innenräumen. 1905. Published in Münich by F. Bruckmann A.-G with an introductory text by Hermann Muthesius. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/dasmodernelandha00muth/page/79/mode/1upKaminecke im herrenzimmer (Vol. seite 81). Carl und A. Bembé-Mainz. Page 80 of 320 Abbildungen moderner Landhäuser aus Deutschland, Österreich, England, und Finnland, mit Grundrissen und Innenräumen. 1905. Published in Münich by F. Bruckmann A.-G with an introductory text by Hermann Muthesius. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/dasmodernelandha00muth/page/80/mode/1upEcke einer Halle. Leopold Bauer – Wien. Page 131 of 320 Abbildungen moderner Landhäuser aus Deutschland, Österreich, England, und Finnland, mit Grundrissen und Innenräumen. 1905. Published in Münich by F. Bruckmann A.-G with an introductory text by Hermann Muthesius. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/dasmodernelandha00muth/page/131/mode/1upSchlafzimmer. Hans Vollmer – Wien. Page 138 of 320 Abbildungen moderner Landhäuser aus Deutschland, Österreich, England, und Finnland, mit Grundrissen und Innenräumen. 1905. Published in Münich by F. Bruckmann A.-G with an introductory text by Hermann Muthesius. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/dasmodernelandha00muth/page/138/mode/1upKaminecke eines billardzimmers. Gesellius, Lindren and Saarinen – Helsingfors. Page 213 of 320 Abbildungen moderner Landhäuser aus Deutschland, Österreich, England, und Finnland, mit Grundrissen und Innenräumen. 1905. Published in Münich by F. Bruckmann A.-G with an introductory text by Hermann Muthesius. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/dasmodernelandha00muth/page/213/mode/1up
Humphry Repton was what we would call a landscape architect though he called himself “an improver of landscapes” and that he certainly was. He obtained many commissions from the Prince Regent (George IV). Several other blog posts here have more wonderful aquatints after his designs.
The albums these are taken from present Granard’s designs for the Beverly Hills homes of some of the 1940s brightest personalities, including actress and pin-up model Betty Grable (“I became a star for two reasons, and I’m standing on them”), Henry Fonda (holdout juror of “12 Angry Men,” father of Jane and Peter), and Bert Lahr (the Wizard of Oz’s Cowardly Lion). For Lahr’s house, Granard collaborated with Paul Revere Williams, a once-overlooked Black architect who has recently been championed as a pioneer in his field. Also included is the residence of Mike Lyman—whose “Mike Lyman’s Grill” was a favorite haunt of Hollywood elite and (perhaps for that reason) F. Scott Fitzgerald—as well as the houses of several lesser-known figures.
The images are all Maynard Parker’s, the influential architectural photographer whose glam-home shots capture the domestic aspirations of the post-War era. Parker is a Hollywood counterpart to Ezra Stoller and Julius Shulman, evoking the easy luxury of home life to their high-minded vision of the American civic realm. He got his start in the pages of the Home Beautiful under the editorship of Elizabeth Gordon, an arbiter of homemaking taste who railed against the International Style—practiced by the likes of Mies, Richard Neutra, and Phillip Johnson—as cold and even totalitarian.
The covers of the albums are imprinted with the name of the homeowners, save for one which reads “Paul Granard Interiors”. Maynard Parker is a well-collected photographer, but complete albums of his are rare. These albums were created to showcase Paul Granard’s work, presumably so they could be shown to potential clients.
These pictures are all taken from the website of Daniel Oliver Gallery. These are all the images that are scanned and on the website. I learned of the Daniel Oliver Gallery when I visited the antiquarian book fair in my city last fall. When I was leaving I picked up a booklet that lists the various exhibitors which I have been working my way through ever since. It has many wonderful things and I hope to finish going through it by next fall when the Boston Book Fair returns.
Escalier, Hôtel du Figaro, Paris. Plate from L’architecture privée au XIXme siècle (Troisième Série). Published in France in 1877. Chromolithograph. César Denis Daly, editor. Jean Arnould Léveil, artist. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/63484/Vestibule, Hôtel du Figaro, Paris. Plate from L’architecture privée au XIXme siècle (Troisième Série). Published in France in 1877. Chromolithograph. César Denis Daly, editor. Jean Arnould Léveil, artist. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/61332/Salle de Bains, Hôtel Boulevard Exelmans, Paris. Plate from L’architecture privée au XIXme siècle (Troisième Série). Published in France in 1877. Chromolithograph. César Denis Daly, editor. Jean Arnould Léveil, artist. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/63483/Vestibules, Hôtel du Figaro, Paris. Plate from L’architecture privée au XIXme siècle (Troisième Série). Published in France in 1877. Chromolithograph. César Denis Daly, editor. Jean Arnould Léveil, artist. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/63509/Vestibule, Hôtel de Menier, Paris. Plate from L’architecture privée au XIXme siècle (Troisième Série). Published in France in 1877. Chromolithograph. César Denis Daly, editor. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/63522Grand Salon, hôtel, Paris. Plate from L’architecture privée au XIXme siècle (Troisième Série). Published in France in 1877. Chromolithograph. César Denis Daly, editor. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/63521/Vestibule, Hôtel Boulevard Exelmans, Paris. Plate from L’architecture privée au XIXme siècle (Troisième Série). Published in France in 1877. Chromolithograph. César Denis Daly, editor. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/63494/
Soffito: della sala laurenti nel ristorante Storione in Padova. Cesar Laurenti, artist. 1910. Image 7 of Modern Decorative Art. Preiss and Bestetti, Milan, editors. Paul Wenzel, importer and publisher. Alfieri and Lacroix, Milan, fine art printers. Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. Brigham Young University, digitalizing sponsor. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/moderndecorative01newy/page/n6/mode/1upDecorative medals. Milan (left) and Ravenna (right). Mario Stroppa, artist. 1910. Image 11 of Modern Decorative Art. Preiss and Bestetti, Milan, editors. Paul Wenzel, importer and publisher. Alfieri and Lacroix, Milan, fine art printers. Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. Brigham Young University, digitalizing sponsor. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/moderndecorative01newy/page/n10/mode/1upCeiling and design for window. G. Beltrami, artist. 1910. Image 17 of Modern Decorative Art. Preiss and Bestetti, Milan, editors. Paul Wenzel, importer and publisher. Alfieri and Lacroix, Milan, fine art printers. Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. Brigham Young University, digitalizing sponsor. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/moderndecorative01newy/page/n16/mode/1upFregi Decorativi. Ugo Palchetti, artist. 1910. Image 21 of Modern Decorative Art. Preiss and Bestetti, Milan, editors. Paul Wenzel, importer and publisher. Alfieri and Lacroix, Milan, fine art printers. Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. Brigham Young University, digitalizing sponsor. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/moderndecorative01newy/page/n20/mode/1upMelagrane. Roberto Franzone, artist. 1910. Image 27 of Modern Decorative Art. Preiss and Bestetti, Milan, editors. Paul Wenzel, importer and publisher. Alfieri and Lacroix, Milan, fine art printers. Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. Brigham Young University, digitalizing sponsor. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/moderndecorative01newy/page/n26/mode/1upAllegoria del Lavoro. Mario Stroppa, artist. 1910. Image 34 of Modern Decorative Art. Preiss and Bestetti, Milan, editors. Paul Wenzel, importer and publisher. Alfieri and Lacroix, Milan, fine art printers. Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. Brigham Young University, digitalizing sponsor. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/moderndecorative01newy/page/n34/mode/1upDecorazioni per Sala da Pranzo. Giovanni Buffa, artist. 1910. Image 36 of Modern Decorative Art. Preiss and Bestetti, Milan, editors. Paul Wenzel, importer and publisher. Alfieri and Lacroix, Milan, fine art printers. Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. Brigham Young University, digitalizing sponsor. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/moderndecorative01newy/page/n36/mode/1upEsposizione internationale d’art Venezia 1907: Sala del Sogno, Galileo Chini, artist. Published in 1910. Plate VII. Image 46 of Modern Decorative Art. Preiss and Bestetti, Milan, editors. Paul Wenzel, importer and publisher. Alfieri and Lacroix, Milan, fine art printers. Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. Brigham Young University, digitalizing sponsor. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/moderndecorative01newy/page/n46/mode/1upOrologi Smaltati di A. Calderoni. Composizione di A. Mazzucottelli. Published in 1910. Image 50 of Modern Decorative Art. Preiss and Bestetti, Milan, editors. Paul Wenzel, importer and publisher. Alfieri and Lacroix, Milan, fine art printers. Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. Brigham Young University, digitalizing sponsor. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/moderndecorative01newy/page/n50/mode/1upDecorative Panels. G. B. Grandi, artist. 1910. Image 52 of Modern Decorative Art. Preiss and Bestetti, Milan, editors. Paul Wenzel, importer and publisher. Alfieri and Lacroix, Milan, fine art printers. Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. Brigham Young University, digitalizing sponsor. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/moderndecorative01newy/page/n52/mode/1upDecorative Panels. G. B. Grandi, artist. 1910. Image 56 of Modern Decorative Art. Preiss and Bestetti, Milan, editors. Paul Wenzel, importer and publisher. Alfieri and Lacroix, Milan, fine art printers. Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. Brigham Young University, digitalizing sponsor. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/moderndecorative01newy/page/n56/mode/1up . Astucci per sigarette di A. Calderoni, Composizioni di Alessandro Mazzucottelli. Image 74 of Modern Decorative Art. Preiss and Bestetti, Milan, editors. Paul Wenzel, importer and publisher. Alfieri and Lacroix, Milan, fine art printers. Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. Brigham Young University, digitalizing sponsor. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/moderndecorative01newy/page/n74/mode/1upFigure Decorative. Fausto Codenotti, artist. Image 77 of Modern Decorative Art. Preiss and Bestetti, Milan, editors. Paul Wenzel, importer and publisher. Alfieri and Lacroix, Milan, fine art printers. Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. Brigham Young University, digitalizing sponsor. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/moderndecorative01newy/page/n76/mode/1upDecorazioni per Ditte Insegne. Fausto Codenotti, artist. Image 91 of Modern Decorative Art. Preiss and Bestetti, Milan, editors. Paul Wenzel, importer and publisher. Alfieri and Lacroix, Milan, fine art printers. Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. Brigham Young University, digitalizing sponsor. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/moderndecorative01newy/page/n90/mode/1upEgyptian Wall Decoration. Image 99 of Modern Decorative Art. Preiss and Bestetti, Milan, editors. Paul Wenzel, importer and publisher. Alfieri and Lacroix, Milan, fine art printers. Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. Brigham Young University, digitalizing sponsor. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/moderndecorative01newy/page/n99/mode/1upArtistic Stained Glass. Giovanni Buffa, artist. Image 104 of Modern Decorative Art. Preiss and Bestetti, Milan, editors. Paul Wenzel, importer and publisher. Alfieri and Lacroix, Milan, fine art printers. Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. Brigham Young University, digitalizing sponsor. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/moderndecorative01newy/page/n104/mode/1upDecorazioni Murali. Edgardo Perindani, artist. Image 112 of Modern Decorative Art. Preiss and Bestetti, Milan, editors. Paul Wenzel, importer and publisher. Alfieri and Lacroix, Milan, fine art printers. Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. Brigham Young University, digitalizing sponsor. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/moderndecorative01newy/page/n112/mode/1upMotivo di Decorazione a Stampo. G. Zuccaro, artist. Image 114 of Modern Decorative Art. Preiss and Bestetti, Milan, editors. Paul Wenzel, importer and publisher. Alfieri and Lacroix, Milan, fine art printers. Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. Brigham Young University, digitalizing sponsor. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/moderndecorative01newy/page/n114/mode/1upMaioliche. G. Casanova, artist. Image 120 of Modern Decorative Art. Preiss and Bestetti, Milan, editors. Paul Wenzel, importer and publisher. Alfieri and Lacroix, Milan, fine art printers. Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. Brigham Young University, digitalizing sponsor. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/moderndecorative01newy/page/n120/mode/1up
