My Art Deco Library Project

[tonyb]

If smoking weren’t so effing hazardous to one’s health, I’d suggest a floor standing ashtray or two.
I’m rarely seeing antique/vintage ashtrays in my visits to the places a person might think he’d find them. Maybe they just take up valuable floor space and don’t sell? Some were quite stylish and might lend themselves to other uses — a candy dish, say.

 

[Mister Cairo]

Another addition, inline with Tony's ideas of vintage pieces, a little touch but these are what will complete a room and make it functional.

A 1940s American waste paper basket, Mission-style, deco adjacent quarter-sawn oak.

 

[Mister Cairo]

Also posted in the your most precious art deco item thread, a real treasure, a 1930 signed by the artist (J. Brault) sculpture of a panther.

 

[Mister Cairo]

I got this mid-century very deco looking bar, 1950s Italian, but on receiving it, while liking it as a piece, feels inadequate as my library bar. As I had been looking for a stand of sorts for my custom MG car radio console, this will do! Will act as antiquarian book storage as well.

 

[Mister Cairo]

Other views, Darcy investigating...

 

[Mister Cairo]

Original 1930s light fixture, from the same Toronto dealer from which I bought the desk lamp.

Original shades, re-wired.

 

[Mister Cairo]

Like the sconces, on a dimmer switch so the mood can change!

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^^
Most excellent! Among the changes we’ve made to our generic suburban rambler over the decade-plus we’ve been here is to replace almost all the builder-grade ceiling fixtures with far superior vintage pieces.
Put the money, and the effort, where it shows. If we have to live with it every day, it’s money well spent.