Art Deco

fashionableartexhibit:

Get out your ukelele and get ready to sing the praises of the flapper and “the way she bobbs [sic] her hair, wears woolen hose, does the latest steps with artistic pose”

The Flapper Blues. Words and Music by Bob Alterman and Claude Johnson. (New York : C.B.A. Music Pub. Co., 1658 Broadway, 1922)

From the Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music at Johns Hopkins University

Earl Christy, The New Movie Magazine, 1930s

Found in The Golden Age of Illustration Project thread.

kreysa:

Erte

thecamphorchest:

Evening Coat, designed by Paul Poiret

nickelcobalt:

natgeofound:

Parisians walk on the street past lottery and vermouth advertisements in 1935.
Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic

Used to have that Nicolas poster in my college dorm.

lesanneeselegantes:

Greta Garbo - Wild Orchids

omgthatdress:

Hair ornament

Cartier, 1930

Sotheby’s

fantomas-en-cavale:

 Arletty, par Sai, 1930

Lightbulb ad, 1930s on Flickr.

Click image for 722 x 1000 size.

Are you using Japanese domestically produced lightbulbs in your home? (Thanks to Paula Wirth for translating!)

Scanned from Taschen’s “Japanese Beauties”.

omgthatdress:

Sautoir

Cartier, 1925

Christie’s