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Artist:
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Robert Mallet-Stevens
La Maison Desny
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Title:
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Coffee pot, from a coffee and tea set
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Date:
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c. 1928
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Medium:
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Silverplated brass with rosewood
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Dimensions:
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5 1/4 x 5 11/16 x 2 in. (13.34 x 14.45 x 5.08 cm)
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Credit Line:
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Gift of funds from the Decorative Arts Council and The Putnam Dana McMillan Fund
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Location:
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Gallery Not on view
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Architect-designer Mallet-Stevens was extremely influential in the advancement of French modernity during the '20s and '30s. He designed many avant-garde film sets, several notable buildings with set pieces of furniture (most of them in tubular steel) and metalwork such as this coffee and tea service for La Maison Desny. When viewed from the side, the mechanistic-looking set suggests a crankshaft or turbines. Only two of these sets are known to exist, the other being in the State Museum of Decorative Arts in Munich.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Mallet-Stevens, Robert
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Role:
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Designer
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Nationality:
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French
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Life Dates:
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French, 1886 - 1945
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Name:
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La Maison Desny
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Role:
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Manufacturer
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Life Dates:
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Paris, 1927-1933
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Stamp stamped, on bottom: [DESNY PARIS MADE IN FRANCE/METAL ARGENTE DEPOSE/(Desny touchmark)]
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Classification:
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Metalwork
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Physical Description:
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flat sides; flat base; rounded wood handle and rounded hinged cover with wood at edges; flat front curving downward to base
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Creation Place:
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Europe, France, Paris
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Accession #:
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99.102.1
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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