Sally Andersen-Bruce photographed the telephone for the stamp. The Henry Dreyfuss stamp features a photograph of the Model 302 Bell telephone introduced in 1937. Sally Andersen-Bruce photographed the flatware for the stamp. The Russel Wright stamp features a photograph of a fork, knife, and spoon from the “Highlight/Pinch” line of flatware designed by Wright in 1950. The photograph is from Wright, the auction house, in Chicago, Illinois. The Donald Deskey stamp features a photograph of a table lamp that Deskey designed around 1927–29.

The photograph is from Christie's Images. The Raymond Loewy stamp features a photograph of a pencil sharpener prototype created in 1933. Denis Farley photographed the pitchers for The Macdonald Stewart Foundation. The Frederick Hurten Rhead stamp features a photograph of two pitchers from the Fiesta dinnerware line designed for The Homer Laughlin China Company in 1936. Stewart Collection at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. The photograph is from The Liliane and David M. The Peter Müller-Munk stamp features a photograph of the “Normandie” pitcher, introduced by the Revere Copper and Brass Company in 1935. While antique tansu furniture may be out of reach for many design projects, companies like Eastern Classics specialize in authentic high quality tansu fabrication that can be customized to meet your specific storage and design criteria. Mizuya-dansu being used in a ktchen designed by Michael S. Simplicity, utility, and masterful craftsmanship also being the hallmarks of these equally intriguing pieces. I am struck by how the German Biedermeir movement might have drawn inspiration from the tansu tradition. Functionally and visually the common thread they all share in addition to the beautiful woods and fabrication are optimal storage solutions, and beautiful hardware that serve an aesthetic and functional purpose.Ī contemporary four-step tansu (Kaidan-Dansu)Ī modern interpretation of the tansu concept There are many different categories of tansu ranging from pieces that would have been used as staircases, in the kitchen, for clothing storage, sword storage, and merchant inventory. Tansu have been traditionally fabricated fro m fine woods such as chestnut, elm, cedar, kiri, and sipo (similar in property to mahogany).

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