Art Deco Bedroom Suite, Leo Jiranek Streamline Design, Fit for a Queen!
Item #2256 SOLD
American Art Deco Modernist Streamline Bedroom Suite by Leo Jiranek has been recently restored and refreshed. This stunning 5 piece suite, with multiple wood veneers, outrageous metal hardware and wonderful mirrors consists of a tall dresser (referred to as “high boy” ), a vanity with matching stool, a night stand along with a bed frame adapted to fit a queen size bed. The matching round mirrors with an unusual etched treatment on both the vanity and dresser have an asymmetrica design.
Each drawer has its own “Streamline Design” label and very modernistic style aluminum handles with black bakelite details. There are rounded edges on the drawer designs on the outside and clean wood interiors. The Vanity is a showstopper, with its blue glass and cobalt mirror and there is even a working electric deco clock integrated into the lower panel.
What a terrfic set!
Leo Jiranek was an important furniture designer, working for decades in “modern furniture”. He is most often associated with his designs for Heywood Wakefield in the post war years, and with Ethan Allen and Bassett into the `1950s -80s. but these gems that we are presenting from his earliest and most inventive period of the late 1930s are the hardest to find. At that point in his career he had a showroom at Rockefeller Center and may well have been featured in the 1939 World’s Fair (as he was in 1964).
In the late 30s and early 40′s he was projecting a style evolution like this:
And certainly the bedroom set has elements of that forward thinking, streamline, modernistic point of view
Jiranek and his work are represented in the Furniture Designers Hall of Fame
Measurements
Headboard: 64″ W x 48″T x 82 inches D
Footboard: 62″ W x 16″ T
Hi Boy Dresser: 51″ T x 34″ W x 20″ D with mirror add additional 9″ T
Nightstand: 27″ x 16″ W x 13″ D
Vanity: 50″ W x 24″T x 21″ D, with round mirror stands 63″ T
Vanity seat: approx 16″ T x 22″ around