{"id":1828,"date":"2015-11-23T01:17:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T06:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drivingfordeco.com\/staging\/3617\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2016-06-04T19:41:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T23:41:16","slug":"happy-birthday-donald-deskey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drivingfordeco.com\/staging\/3617\/happy-birthday-donald-deskey\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Donald Deskey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Donald Deskey in the second mezzanine’s men’s lounge at Radio City Music Hall.<\/p><\/div>\n

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One hundred and twenty-one years ago today (November 23rd) in Blue Earth, Minnesota a man was born, who for over half a century was one of the top industrial and interior designers in the world. Donald Deskey studied architecture at UC Berkeley, but never practiced it. After college he studied art in Paris and attended the\u00a01925 Exposition Internationale des Arts D\u00e9coratifs et Industriels Modernes<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>which was a huge influence on his design asethetic. Returning to New York he started a design consulting firm and was first noticed for the windows he designed for the Franklin Simon Department Store on Fifth Avenue in 1926.<\/h4>\n

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Franklin Simon Department Store – Wurts Bros. Photo Museum of the City of New York<\/p><\/div>\n

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The following year Deskey formed a partnership with Phillip Vollmer. The\u00a0firm of Deskey-Vollmer designed very modernistic furniture and textiles. Below are some examples of their collaborative work.<\/h4>\n

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