Art Deco
Wind, Rain and Snow Scenes – Willys Knight Car Advertisements
Beach and Car Scene – Advertisement Willys Knight Car
Jeanne Paquin Portrait and Biography – Page 3
You will conjure up a vision of sheets of paper, a busy pencil, puckered brows, disordered hair, much burning of the midnight oil. You will be wrong. It is not in this way that Mme Paquin contrives her triumphs. She does not first sketch out the dress and then make it up, but makes it…
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With the glee of children, they established themselves in a flat scarcely bigger than the drawing-room, filled with rich objets d’art, in Mme Paquin’s own residence to-day. In a few years the single flat became twenty, and workrooms, filled with gay little midinettes, laughing and chattering like birds, thrust a none the less sedate facade…
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JEANNE PAQUIN BORN: 1869 DIED: 1936 HUSBAND: Isidore Paquin (born Isidore Jacob m. 1891 d. 1907/1908) BUSINESS: Maison Paquin created in 1890/1891 [the below is republished from Makers of new France by Charles Dawbarn. Published 1915 by Milld & Boon, limited in London] Madame Paquin, with her fresh complexion, black patch, and lock of grey…
Read MoreMeeting in the Park by Paul Meras circa 1913
Th Empty Cage by Andre Edouard Marty circa 1912
Fidelity Rewarded by Maurice Taquoy circa 1913
Art Deco 2013 Events
January 18-20, 2013: Miami, Florida, United States http://www.artdecoweekend.com ART DECO WEEKEND sees world-famous Ocean Drive even more energized with 300,000 visitors, checking out the local establishments and hundreds of vendors exhibiting their wares. Whether Artists, Craftsmen, Chefs, Bartenders, Car Collectors, or any variety of Art Deco Retailers, all showing the best they have to offer.…
Read MoreAntique Citroën Art Deco Sport Prints
The turn of the century [1900s] was an innovative time in history that included the first cars and airplanes. You will find this spirit captured in the Citroën prints that were originally published in the Gazette du bon ton in 1912.
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