More fabulous fans from an auction of fans made to advertise restaurants and hotels held in 2018 by Paris auction house Coutau-Bégarie. Three fans from advertising campaigns for Marquery restaurants, the Chalet du Globe, Versailles and Langer in Paris. 20th c. Wooden frames with double sheets of printed paper. Maker not known. Image © Étude Coutau-Bégarie. Fair use license. https://www.coutaubegarie.com/lot/94796/9425669 Fans advertising the Hôtel de Paris à Monte-Carlo. 20th c. Double sheets of printed paper with wooden frames. Maker not known. Image © Étude Coutau-Bégarie. Fair use license. via https://www.coutaubegarie.com/lot/94796/9425674 Fan from an advertising campaign for the Hôtels chics de Nice : Ruhl, Savoy, Royal et France. Wooden frames with printed double sheets of paper. 20th c. Maker not known. Image © Étude Coutau-Bégarie. Fair use license. via https://www.coutaubegarie.com/lot/94796/9425675 Fan from an advertising campaign for the Savoy Hotel. 20th c. Synthetic material decorated with a sphinx head with a handle of synthetic tortoiseshell. Maker not known. Maker not known. Image © Étude Coutau-Bégarie. Fair use license. via https://www.coutaubegarie.com/lot/94796/9425681 Fan from an advertising campaign brewery of the Avenue de l’Opera in Paris. Face of a woman sipping champagne with images of the brewery on the back. 20th c. Folded paper with a wooden frame. Maker not known. Maker not known. Image © Étude Coutau-Bégarie. Fair use license. via https://www.coutaubegarie.com/lot/94796/9425686 Advertising fans for the Enghien and Vichy casinos. 20th c. Double sheets of paper with wooden frames. Maker not known. via Maker not known. Image © Étude Coutau-Bégarie. Fair use license. via https://www.coutaubegarie.com/lot/94796/9425687 Three fans, double sheets of printed paper. Wooden frames.
A bit of gleaming Art Nouveau to glitz up anyone’s coffee table. Magazine covers and an oddment or two that snuck in when no one was looking. French. Louis Théophile Hingre, illustrator (1832-1901). All works in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1924. Cover art for a 1915 issue of the Delineator. via https://largesizepaintings.blogspot.com/2011/03/ Goddess Ceres. Illustration. via https://twitter.com/navymat/status/812031255340548096 Lady angel. via https://www.ebay.com/itm/Louis-Theophile-Hingre-Lady-Angel-/253785009034
1930’s American advertisements from when linoleum was new and exciting . . . .more later, found enough for at least one more post. Sealex linoleum (detail). 1937. In the public domain. via http://www.crowellphoto.com/edit.php#MTkzNyBTZWFsZXggQWRoZXNpdmUgTGlub2xldW0gUmV0cm8gMTkzMHMgUmVkIFdoaXRlIEtpdGNoZW5bfHxdaHR0cHM6Ly9pbWcwLmV0c3lzdGF0 Kitchen. 1930’s. Maker not known. In the public domain. via https://furniture.digitalassetmanagement.site/edit Armstrong. Late 1930’s . In the public domain. via http://www.lileks.com/30s/kitchens/12.html
Snappy illustrations for Vitrolite, a mid 1930’s American structural glass that could be sandblasted translucent and came in every color of the rainbow. Used for store fronts as well as bathroom sinks and restaurant tables from coast to coast. Red and white bathroom. Image © decopix.com. via http://www.decopix.com/the-vitrolite-story/ Vitrolite kitchen, Turzak residence, Chicago, Illinois. 1930’s. Bruce Goff, maker. Image © The Wolfsonian Digital Catalog. Fair use license. via https://digital.wolfsonian.org/WOLF019847/00001/1j?search=bruce+%3dgoff Sink (detail). from “Personality Bathrooms and Character Kitchens.” Lurelle Guild, designer and illustrator. Image © decopix.com. Fair use license. via http://www.decopix.com/the-vitrolite-story/ “The food shop, problem C.” Entry in the Libbey-Owens-Ford “Modernize Main Street” competition, 1935. Submitted by Ewald A. Young. Image © decopix.com. Fair use license. via http://www.decopix.com/the-vitrolite-story/ Vitrolite ideal for restaurants. 1937. Illustration attributed to architect Bruce Goff. Image © decopix.com. Fair use license. via http://www.decopix.com/the-vitrolite-story/ From various catalogs, brochures and advertisements.
Vintage polar bears . . . . . . none hibernating, not nipping and suitable to be petted by those of any age. . . Stalwart brand valencia orange crate label. Santa Paula Orange Association, California. Undated. via https://www.ebay.com/itm/Stalwart-Valencai-Orange-Crate-Label-Art-Print-Polar-Bear-Santa-Paula-Ventra-Ca-/151659370723. Poster showing a polar bear holding a bar of Frigor chocolate. 1929. Lithograph. Leonetto Cappiello, maker. via https://www.loc.gov/item/2004665788/. Poster for Cordial Campari. Undated. via https://www.amazon.com/CORDIAL-CAMPARI-DRINKING-ALCOHOLIC-LIQUEUR/dp/B001VN1EV4. All images in the public domain.