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Opulent opalescent Etling

Opulent, opalescent, Etling In the spotlight this month: a gorgeous French Etling opalescent glass bowl from around 1925. The pattern is Les Veloutes, model number 251. It has everything you’d look for in Art Deco opalescent glass –  shades of milky turquoise and transparency, the sweeping sense of motion, the contrasting textures. It’s easy to see…

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Jean Gerbino and the Vallauris art of neriage

A late Art Deco mosaic vase by Jean Gerbino This large mosaic vase was made by the naturalised French ceramist, Jean Gerbino. With its stylish triangular handles, it has a whiff of Art Deco about it. That fits, since Gerbino produced this shape around 1940, though he continued making it into the next decade. Like…

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Loys Lucha, flowers for every season

Loys Lucha, where flowers bloomed all year round This luxury Art Deco Loys Lucha light first adorned a room in a fashionable Parisian home. Its original owner, Madame X, went to the Loys Lucha boutique to choose it in person, before sallying off to Angelina’s for tea and patisseries. Visiting the Loys Lucha light showroom around…

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Foxy cocktails with Benjamin Rabier

Foxy cocktails Stylish barware from the age of Art Deco   Who could resist the this dapper fox, with his paw on his breast, as he prepares to charm the cheese from the crow’s beak? This French Art Deco cocktail stick set perfectly captures the humour of one of my favourite fables by La Fontaine…