NORMAN BEL GEDDES 1950 Retro Modernist Necklace In Gilt Steel
Necklace designed by Norman Bel Geddes.
This is a fabulous retro-modernist necklace, created in America by the industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes, back in the late 1950. The design of this necklace was conceived during the post war period. Very original and Avant-Garde piece crafted with geometric patterns in solid gilt steel with high polished finish. It is fitted on the back with a concealed security lock. The necklace is rare, highly collectable and in perfect usable-display condition with no bumps, marks or corroded parts.
Weight: 43.95 Grams, (28.17 Pound).
Size: 15.5 Inches, (40 Cm).
Measurements: The main dangle section is 65 mm by 40 mm (2.56 x 1.58 Inches).
Hallmarks: Stamped with the maker's mark and signed, "DESIGNED BY BEL GEDDES".
Norman Bel Geddes
Bel Geddes began his career with set designs for Aline Barnsdall Los Angeles Little Theater in the 1916–17 season, then in 1918 as the scene designer for the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He designed and directed various theatrical works, from Arabesque and The Five O'clock Girl on Broadway to an ice show, It Happened on Ice, produced by Sonja Henie. He also created set designs for the film Feet of Clay (1924), directed by Cecil B. DeMille, designed costumes for Max Reinhardt, and created the sets for the Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley's Dead End (1935). Bel Geddes opened an industrial-design studio in 1927, and designed a wide range of commercial products, from cocktail shakers to commemorative medallions to radio cabinets. His designs extended to unrealized futuristic concepts: a teardrop-shaped automobile, and an Art Deco House of Tomorrow. In 1929, he designed "Airliner Number 4," a 9-deck amphibian airliner that incorporated areas for deck-games, an orchestra, a gymnasium, a solarium, and two airplane hangars. Bel Geddes designed the General Motors Pavilion, known as Futurama, for the 1939 New York World's Fair. For that famous and enormously influential installation, Bel Geddes exploited his earlier work in the same vein: he had designed a "Metropolis City of 1960" in 1936.
Collections: Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford, The Brooklyn Museum, The Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Yale University Art Gallery.
Condition: The overall condition of this necklace is excellent. Beside the little normal wear, there is no damage to the metal. All parts are secured in the settings. This piece has been carefully inspected to guarantee the condition and authenticity.
INVENTORY REF: N090124MMNL/.4532
