Jewellery box - Olive

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This Italian Art Deco musical chest, made of olive wood and silk, dates from 1930–1940 and measures 18 × 20 × 12 cm.

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In the early 1930s, while the Western world redefines its aesthetic standards, in the great European capitals personal care enters a new golden age. The modern concept of a bedroom vanity is born: an intimate space where bourgeois women preserve perfumes, powders, silver brooches, and the first high-end costume jewelry made famous by Coco Chanel. The objects in this space abandon the nineteenth-century splendor to embrace the cleanliness and simplicity of Art Deco, paired with the functionality of Streamline Moderne.

The Object: The Clarion Musical Casket
Designed to be placed on a dresser or a dressing table, the case combines the practicality of multiple drawers with the poetry of the built-in musical mechanism, wound from the back, intended to accompany the motions of the evening toilette before a reception, a night at the cinema, or the opera.

In the early 1930s, while the Western world redefines its aesthetic standards, in the great European capitals personal care enters a new golden age. The modern concept of a bedroom vanity is born: an intimate space where bourgeois women preserve perfumes, powders, silver brooches, and the first high-end costume jewelry made famous by Coco Chanel. The objects in this space abandon the nineteenth-century splendor to embrace the cleanliness and simplicity of Art Deco, paired with the functionality of Streamline Moderne.

The Object: The Clarion Musical Casket
Designed to be placed on a dresser or a dressing table, the case combines the practicality of multiple drawers with the poetry of the built-in musical mechanism, wound from the back, intended to accompany the motions of the evening toilette before a reception, a night at the cinema, or the opera.

Details

Era
1900-2000
Weight
2 kg
Wood type
Olive
Specific region of origin
Sicilia
Number of objects
1
Country of origin
Italy
Material
Silk, Wood
Style
Art Deco
Condition
Good condition - used with small signs of ageing
Height
18 cm
Width
20 cm
Depth
12 cm
Estimated period
1930-1940
Italy
1
Object sold
Private

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