HONKA KARASZ 1935 Art Deco Coffee Pot In Silver Plate & Wood Carvings

An art-deco coffee pot designed by Ilonka Karasz.

This is a beautiful American art deco coffee pot created in New York City by the designer Ilonka Karasz. The geometric coffee pot has been designed with Bauhaus art parameters and crafted in silver plated brass with parts carved in solid wood, such the handle and the lid. The main body has been made with fluted patters. Fitted with a cylinder handle and a round lid.

Bauhaus

The Bauhaus style tends to feature simple geometric shapes like rectangles and spheres, without elaborate decorations. Buildings, furniture, jewelry and fonts often feature rounded corners and sometimes rounded walls. Other structures are characterized by rectangular features, for example protruding balconies with flat, chunky railings facing the street, and long banks of windows. furniture often uses chrome metal pipes that curve at corners. 

Ilonka Karasz

She was a Hungarian-American designer, interior decorator, painter and illustrator known for avant-garde industrial design and for her many New Yorker magazine covers. Karasz was born in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, the oldest of three children of Mary Huber Karasz and silversmith Samuel Karasz. One of her younger sisters was the fashion designer and textile artist Mariska Karasz. She studied art at the Royal Academy of Arts and Crafts during a period when the reigning aesthetic owed much to the Wiener Werkstätte and was one of the first women to be admitted to the school. At the age of 17, she immigrated to the United States in 1913, and began to make a career for herself in New York City‘s Greenwich Village, where she established herself as an influential practitioner of modern art and design. In 1914, Karasz co-founded (with Winold Reiss) the European-American artists' collective Society of Modern Art, and shortly afterwards she was commissioned to create advertising for the department store Bonwit Teller. For a few years in the late teens she taught textile design at the Modern Art School.

Country: New York City, United States.

Period: Art-Deco, 1930.

Materials: Silver plated brass and carved woods.

Measurements: H. 118 mm by L. 155.5 mm by D. 97.3 mm (4.65 x 6.12 x 3.83 Inches).

Hallmarks: Unmarked.

Condition: The overall condition of this Ilonka Karasz coffee pot is excellent. Beside the little normal wear there is no damage to the silver and all parts are secured in the settings. This pot was carefully inspected to guarantee the condition & authenticity.

INVENTORY REF: D031126MENH/.6610