Vintage tin canister in Art Deco style

Vintage tin canister in Art Deco style. 

• Date of manufacture: 1930-1950

Description
Beautifully designed vintage tin canister in a beautiful art deco design style. This tin is equipped with a loose, slightly bulging lid. The decoration of this tin consists of a combination of various patterns in the colours light yellow, orange and light and dark blue.

The tin is among others decorated with various stylistic butterflies.

Rolled edge present on both lid and tin box. The back has a longitudinal seam.

Condition
This sugar canister is in an original vintage condition with various traces of use and age-related traces of use.

Size

• Height: 18 cm.
• Diameter: 11 cm.

Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners. It took its name, short for Arts Décoratifs, from the Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) held in Paris in 1925. It combined modern styles with fine craftsmanship and rich materials. During its heyday, Art Deco represented luxury, glamour, exuberance, and faith in social and technological progress.

Art Deco was a pastiche of many different styles, sometimes contradictory, united by a desire to be modern. From its outset, Art Deco was influenced by the bold geometric forms of Cubism and the Vienna Secession; the bright colors of Fauvism and of the Ballets Russes; the updated craftsmanship of the furniture of the eras of Louis Philippe I and Louis XVI; and the exotic styles of China and Japan, India, Persia, ancient Egypt and Maya art. It featured rare and expensive materials, such as ebony and ivory, and exquisite craftsmanship. The Chrysler Building and other skyscrapers of New York built during the 1920s and 1930s are monuments of the Art Deco style.

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