Donald Deskey American Art Deco Desk & Chair

Donald DeskeyDonald Deskey
American [1894 - 1989] 

Donald Deskey was born in Blue Earth, Minnesota in 1894. In 1912 he left for California with a high school diploma. After a series of jobs, a stint in the army, and attendance at The University of California at Berkeley to study architecture and painting he began in 1920 working in advertising, first Chicago then New York. In 1925 he visited the Exposition International des Arts Decoratifs et Industrials Moderns and the Bauhaus in Germany. He came back to New York in 1926 committed to the modern movement. He created store window displays for Saks- Fifth Avenue and made folding screens for Paul Frankl. Frankl paid Deskey $35 per screen and sold them for $400… a tidy profit. Through his work at Saks, Deskey met the company president, Adam Gimbel and showed him some furniture drawings he had made in Paris. Gimbel was impressed enough that he commissioned Deskey to furnish the interior of his Park Avenue apartment, Deskey’s first...
Click to Read More (1894 – 1989) created this desk and chair which was manufactured by the Widdicomb Furniture Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan ca. 1935. The desk and chair are of black lacquer and highly figured Avoidire wood with brushed chrome plated steel back plates on the handles. The desk is 42” wide, 24” deep and 30” high. It was featured in Home Furnishing Arts Volume III, Fall/Winter 1935. Both desk & chair have been refinished and are ready for your home or office.

Reference# AF092

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