Donald Deskey American Art Deco Nine Piece Bedroom Set

This very complete and important nine piece bedroom suite is 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’s (1894 – 1989) first design for the Widdicomb Furniture Company and Widdicomb’s introduction into modern furniture in 1933. An example of this set was exhibited at the 1934 groundbreaking Contemporary Industrial Art Exhibit at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1934. Finished in straight grain and highly figured satinwood veneers and lacquer with aluminum and lacquered wood pulls, the suite has been lovingly restored to its original splendor. The set was featured in House Beautiful 1933, The London Studio 1933, Arts and Decoration 1934 and in House and Garden 1934 and 1935. It is also shown in David Hank’s book Donald Deskey. The set consists of a tall chest, a low chest, a desk and chair, a vanity and stool, a double bed and two night stands.

Reference# AF109

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