Chase Art Deco Cat Door Stop
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Here's another favorite in my art deco collection. This whimsical cat door stop in polished copper and brass was designed by famed industrial designer Walter Von Nessen for The Chase Brass and Copper Company during the 1930's. As part of their modern giftware line, Von Nessen reused elbow joints from the Chase inventory to design this machine age door stop.
The 1934 Chase giftware catalog described this door stop as such: "Here's a door stop with no pretty pink flowers, no Dutch windmills, no little girls in long dresses. Here's a solid, handsome metal cat, dignified but humorous, that will hold your door open and stop draft slams."
Thoroughly modern, even by today's standards!
art deco light St. Andrew's House 1935: Edinburgh 2012
Image by mermaid99
St. Andrew's House is the headquarters building of the Scottish Government.
The building was designed by Thomas S. Tait of Burnet, Tait and Lorne, architects, who won the architectural competition to gain the commission. Construction began in November 1935, and was completed in 1939.
Tait's design incorporates elements of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne and is noted for being a rare example of sensitively designed modern architecture in Edinburgh.[2]
The building features a number of sculpted decorations, also in the Art Deco style, which are credited to several notable British sculptors: Sir William Reid Dick designed symbolic figures; heraldic devices are the work of Alexander Carrick and Phyllis Mary Bone; the large bronze doors were designed by Walter Gilbert (sculptor) and executed by H.H Martyn; and the secondary doors and stairs are by Thomas Hadden. From Wikipedia.
St. Andrew's House 1935: art deco Edinburgh 2012
Image by mermaid99
St. Andrew's House is the headquarters building of the Scottish Government.
The building was designed by Thomas S. Tait of Burnet, Tait and Lorne, architects, who won the architectural competition to gain the commission. Construction began in November 1935, and was completed in 1939.
Tait's design incorporates elements of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne and is noted for being a rare example of sensitively designed modern architecture in Edinburgh.[2]
The building features a number of sculpted decorations, also in the Art Deco style, which are credited to several notable British sculptors: Sir William Reid Dick designed symbolic figures; heraldic devices are the work of Alexander Carrick and Phyllis Mary Bone; the large bronze doors were designed by Walter Gilbert (sculptor) and executed by H.H Martyn; and the secondary doors and stairs are by Thomas Hadden. From Wikipedia.
St. Andrew's House 1935: art deco Edinburgh 2012
Image by mermaid99
St. Andrew's House is the headquarters building of the Scottish Government.
The building was designed by Thomas S. Tait of Burnet, Tait and Lorne, architects, who won the architectural competition to gain the commission. Construction began in November 1935, and was completed in 1939.
Tait's design incorporates elements of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne and is noted for being a rare example of sensitively designed modern architecture in Edinburgh.[2]
The building features a number of sculpted decorations, also in the Art Deco style, which are credited to several notable British sculptors: Sir William Reid Dick designed symbolic figures; heraldic devices are the work of Alexander Carrick and Phyllis Mary Bone; the large bronze doors were designed by Walter Gilbert (sculptor) and executed by H.H Martyn; and the secondary doors and stairs are by Thomas Hadden. From Wikipedia.
St. Andrew's House 1935: art deco Edinburgh 2012
Image by mermaid99
St. Andrew's House is the headquarters building of the Scottish Government.
The building was designed by Thomas S. Tait of Burnet, Tait and Lorne, architects, who won the architectural competition to gain the commission. Construction began in November 1935, and was completed in 1939.
Tait's design incorporates elements of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne and is noted for being a rare example of sensitively designed modern architecture in Edinburgh.[2]
The building features a number of sculpted decorations, also in the Art Deco style, which are credited to several notable British sculptors: Sir William Reid Dick designed symbolic figures; heraldic devices are the work of Alexander Carrick and Phyllis Mary Bone; the large bronze doors were designed by Walter Gilbert (sculptor) and executed by H.H Martyn; and the secondary doors and stairs are by Thomas Hadden. From Wikipedia.
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