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Opening shot (can appear at the end of the story):
Sterling silver cocktail shaker, Gorham Silver Co., 1920s [1]
Nude Descending a Staircase, by Marcel Duchamps, 1910. A Cubist painting that
appalled the critics of the time and served as a symbol for the modernist movement
A hammered silver tureen by Jean Puiforcat, 1925, demonstrates the inspiration from
industrial and simple geometric forms that found their way into everyday design [2]
New York City’s Chrysler Building, an Art Deco masterpiece that inspired many silver
designers
Black Star and Gorham Brooch (U.S.), 1908, reflects the return-to-nature movement
popularized by the Craftsman Movement of the late 19th-early 20th centuries [3]
Pyramid coffee service, by Georg Jensen (Sweden), 1920 (circ.), achieved a formal look
without resorting to the heavily embellished style of silver design of the previous 200years [4]
Detail of Georg Jensen serving piece (1920s), showing his classic “Lilly of the Valley”
design motif [4]
Appearing at the end of the story:
The pieces shown in this story and others like it can be found at the following locations
[see numbered reference 1-4]:
[1] www.coylesauction.com (for a wide range of constantly changing inventory)
[2] www.primaveragallery.com
[3] www.rubylane/shops/virtu-doll/item/ih908
[4] www.alastaircrawford.com (dealing exclusively in Georg Jensen silver)
And many thanks to silver expert and friend, Bernard de Maillard, of Westport, CT’s Léonce
Antiques for his help with this story. His large inventory can be seen at
www.leoncesilver.com