DATE: France, 1920s to 1940s
The sideboard by Eugene Printz supports a Greek stele. The framed arched doors are inlaid and framed in gilt bronze. The table is a single piece of mahogany - 4" thick and 12' long. Amazing specimen.. The chairs are French, late Art Deco, and the white urn is Egyptian alabaster.
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY-TREASURES-ART DECO
"Treasures of The New York Public Library: Art Deco" video on the Art Deco collections at the Library with librarian Clayton Kirking.
V&A Museum - Art Deco
The Victoria & Albert Museum's website has a multitude of links to essays.
BOLERO - GEORGE RAFT AND CAROLE LOMBARD
Ravel's "Bolero" caused a sensation when it debuted at the Paris Opera in 1929. By 1934 Carole Lombard and tough guy "white booties with a Cuban heel??) George Raft were dancing in the film "Bolero".
Galerie Dutko
Jean-Jacques Dutko literally wrote the book on Printz.
Wikipedia - Art Deco
Wikipedia gives an excellent bibliography and covers the topic internationally.
Gerard and Benoist and Christopher have great French Art Deco furniture. The shows and catalogs the gallery mounts are erudite and beautiful and their antiques show installations are the first we head to see.ARTNET - EUGENE PRINTZ
Printz pieces from dealers all over the world.
ART DECO COMPLETE - THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE
Alistair Duncan's "Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920's and 1930's" is indeed definitive.
Bernd Goeckler Antiques is one of those (very) few dealers that truly are all over the map and always spot on. Biedermeier gilt wood chandeliers, Printz tables, Italian glass, and the odd magnificent Coromandel screen.NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY - ART DECO
Beautiful Art Deco decorative motifs from "Relais"
You will have to hone down the search yourself. American? French? Italian? There is lots of 'Art Deco' out there - the good, the bad, and the ugly.