"Art Deco and Streamlined Modern: Design 1920–1950"
2001-11-18 until 2001-05-20
Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, TX, USA

This exhibition focusing on design of the 20th century will include a splendid array of French furniture and light fixtures, American tableware, and German punch bowls.

Highlights include exceptional objects designed by American Eugene Schoen in 1935 for the glamorous home of Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz in Washington, D.C.

Another significant group of art deco pieces was recently bequeathed to the Museum by Patsy Lacy Griffith, a noted Dallas collector who had acquired furnishings from the 1920s and 1930s for her high-rise apartment in Dallas.

Also noteworthy are streamlined appliances and furniture that demonstrate the differences between classic French art deco of the 1920s and American design in the 1930s. In the Focus Gallery.

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