If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
Jockeying for Position: How Boxers and Briefs Got Into Men's Pants
Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Blood, Sweat, and Steel: My Afternoon with the Ace of Swords
'The Great Gatsby' Still Gets Flappers Wrong
Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
Forget TV Pickers, Meet the Real Mavericks of the Antiques World
Coveting The Craziest Cat-People Collectibles
Posted 10 months ago
vetraio50
(358 items)
A forgotten American artist/designer: Lucienne Bloch?
A Leerdam connection to the US?
There are more than one, for sure!
At this month's Collector’s Fair I found two pieces of clear glass.
One was a piece of Kaj Franck’s ‘rakkolasia' or 'blister glass' from the Sargasso range.
The other was a piece of ‘gesatineerd glas’ frosted glass designed by Lucienne Bloch in 1929 for Leerdam.
The catalogue number of this piece is KO 1457.
It was made by the N.V. Glasfabriek Leerdam for a number of years after 1934.
It is part of the range of “Plastiek” – sculptures that Leerdam has produced. I love the poise of the reclining deer the ‘liggend hertje’ and the look on the face of the "hert".
It is 11 cm or 4.3" long.
Lucienne Bloch January 5, 1909 - March 13, 1999) was a photographer, muralist and multi-talented artist. She was fascinating character, friend of Antoine Bourdelle, Andre Lhote. Beniamino Bufano, Frank Lloyd Wright, Santiago Martínez Delgado, Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo and others…..
Check out the site of tribute to her here:
http://www.luciennebloch.com/biographies/lucienne_bloch.htm
Art GlassArt glass sprang from a revolution in glassmaking in the mid 1800s, when gl…
AnimalsThe breadth of objects made in the shapes of animals is as wide as the anim…
I loooove it, it's so beautiful!....:-)
Many thanks inkY!
I had been after a Bloch for years.
I can understand why when you look at this lovely thing!...:-)
Want to trade for the deer I posted yesterday?
Many thanks MustangT, Amber (my hert is not in it, sweetie!) and to Sean2!
I'm putting out vibrations, so that you will find it's pair, Amber!
Just think good thoughts!
Om!
Well gosh o golly V I don't know why you wouldn't trade. (wide eyed and blinking innocently)
: ))
Oh Miss Amber, Bette could not have read those lines any better!
Many thanks pontillo200 and to Sean B too!
Daughter to the great composer Anton Bloch, close friend of Frieda and Diego, worked for the WPA project in the 30's, designed for Leerdam while in her 20's. I even have a first signed edition of her novel!
Many thanks Manikin!
And thanks to you Alfredo!
My apologies: a thanks to both CollectiblesUnlimited & miKKoChristmas11 too!
VERY BEAUTIFUL , I SHOOT , I HAD TO SEE WHAT I WAS MISSING LOL:) and been working lately :) love this item , and hello vetraio50:)
G'day young mate! Many thanks again! Just got back from a tour with a Lalique bowl.
you are one lucky boy:) very cool , i have to tell you something very funny the photographer and i were fighting over the Bottega Veneta briefcase a couple of days ago it was to funny :)
A bottega is an atelier or a boutique. The veneta refers to the region of the Veneto where the company was formed originally in Vicenza in 1966 by Michele Taddei and Renzo Zengiaro. Cool bag!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottega_Veneta
Many thanks scandinamie Amy! Yea, I found a Pinsons bowl this arvo at Vinnies. Not a thirties one, however. But it's a beautiful thing sitting in pfront of me now.
So many little finches hiding in the zig-zag of a bramble bush.
I was shocked to see it there.
Many thanks londonloetzlearner!
Many thanks Amanda!
thankyou vetraio50 for the information on the Bottega Veneta:)
Sweet piece vet !!
Many thanks Hedgwalker!
Many thanks Marc112!
many thanks purpledog!
Many thanks betty4 and to Phil too!
Many thanks bazelmania!
Remember me in your will. I have been scouring the Net for this one. I have a similar Zsolnay. but it is a pair of deer. (posted a while ago).
Many thanks Alfredo! I'll call the lawyer!
Many thanks petey!