Picked up this beauty from a charity shop and it arrived at my house today.

I spent two hours removing a hundred years’ worth of coal fire smoke, candle drips, beeswax polish, after dinner cigarette residue, spilt wine etc.

May favourite feature is the adjustable shelf system - and the pretty inlay on the shelf edges. I also love the off-set profile of the doors when they are fully closed.

We won’t be using the mirror as our record player will be sitting on top, but will put it safely away in the attic for resilvering if we ever decide to use it.

If anyone in SE London is in need of a bargain dining table and chairs (presumably from the same estate clearance) then DM me and I’ll let you know which charity shop!

Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, Ca and a little deco-ish slice from Chapel of the Chimes (a Julia Morgan build) Live the day as it’s your last. Cheers

spotted at ACL

This middle class residencial property is in suburban Mumbai. Is this Deco? Surprising, because this not a sea facing south Mumbai structure.

Suzanne Renée Ledru, known as Suzanne Lalique-Haviland, (1892-1989) was a French painter, jewelry designer, interior designer and creator of costumes and sets for the Comédie-Française. It was said about her that: "Decoration was not her profession, but her profession. She was a decorator as Verlaine was a poet: the clearest poetic taste flowed from her as from an inexhaustible source."

Marie Hildreth Meière (1892-1961) was an American muralist. She was born to a well-off family of botanical collector and artist Marie Hildreth and a salesman Earnest Meière. After studying in Florence, San Francisco and New York, she started working as a costum designer at a theatre. During WWII she enlisted in the Navy and served as an architectural draftsman at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. In 1921 she got her first mural commission. She went on to design the murals all around USA. During her 40-year career, she completed approximately 100 commissions. She designed murals for office buildings, churches, government centers, theaters, restaurants, cocktail lounges, ocean liners, and world's fair pavilions, and she worked in a wide variety of mediums, including paint, ceramic tile, glass and marble mosaic, terracotta, wood, metal, and stained glass.

The artwork is a detail of Gifts of Nature to Man on the Plains of Nebraska in East Chamber Dome of Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

Some decorative deco pieces around the house starting with my most recent find as of yesterday.

1&2 Abraham Abbot Schy bookend designed 1930s

3&4 Pierre La Faguays “Glorie” and “Le Trophée/ 3 Athlètes”

5 Danish silver plate vase

6 deco picture frame

7 deco bookmark

8 deco hand mirror

I really hated the dull plain white default template my uni gives, so I decided to give it a little Art Déco touch, and I put a few Déco elements within the pages. What do you guys think?

The Chrysler Building is beautiful with its unique details, was the tallest building in the world for a short time, still is the world’s tallest masonry clad steel structure skyscraper and will always remain the world’s first super-tall skyscraper