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  György Kepes, Abstraction, Gelatin silver print 1942

  GYÖRGY KEPES (1906-2001) Hungary/USA

  Abstraction 1942

  Silver gelatin print

  Signed: Gyorgy Kepes 1942 (in ink on back)

  Framed size: H: 18 13/16” x W: 16”

  György Kepes was a Hungarian-born painter, designer, educator and art theorist. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the New Bauhaus (later the School of Design, then Institute of Design, then Illinois Institute of Design or IIT) in Chicago. In 1947 He founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he taught until his retirement in 1974.

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  Tommi Parzinger, Sterling silver coffee pot with meandering floral and leaf design, ebony handle and finial detail c. 1938

  TOMMI PARZINGER (1903-1972) Germany / USA
  PETER ALBERT REIMES Silversmith (1900-1945) Germany / USA

  Modernist Coffee pot c. 1938

  Hand wrought sterling silver with meandering floral and leaf design, ebony handle and finial detail
  Marks: Designed by Parzinger (in script), hand made, sterling (in script), P*R monogram (initials mark of Peter Reimes)
  Model illustrated: LIFE Magazine November 20, 1939
  For more information on Tommi Parzinger see: Town & Country, Vol. 54, “Counter Points”, December 1939, p. 31; Town & Country, Vol. 95, “Counter Points”, June 1940, p. 19; The Studio, 1938, “For the Table”, p.107-09; The Studio, 1942, “Tommi Parzinger, Designer of Modern Interiors and Silver”, p.37; Decorative Art, Studio Yearbook (London & New York: The Studio Publications, 1952-53), p. 98; Craft in the Machine Age, ed. Janet Kardon (New York: American Craft Museum, 1995) p.128, 134, 183, 241, Arts and Decoration, June 1940
  H: 9 ¼” x W: 6 ½” x D: 3 ¾”