Rare Donald Deskey Copper Table

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) designed this rare and important American art deco table ca. 1930. The copper and glass table is stamped “Treitel-Gratz Co. Inc, New York”, they were located at 142 east 32^nd street in Manhattan and produced metal furniture for his Radio City Music Hall commission in 1932. The well-made piece has a 2 inch band attached to three 2 by 1 inch legs. A round sheet of glass sits on the top while a bottom glass shelf rests on three stretchers. A table of similar construction was used in Deskey’s commission for the apartment of Mr. John D Rockefeller done in 1929-1931. The table measures 24 ¼” in diameter and 18 ¼” high.

Reference# AF249

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