Art Deco Bedroom Suite, Leo Jiranek Streamline Design, Fit for a Queen! | Sold Items Bedroom | Art Deco Collection
Click to enlarge

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.

 

DSCN0318

 

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).

Jiranek Streamline

 

Jiranek Furniture Tags

Jiranek Furniture Tags

 

The set we are offering is from his line of “Featurized Furniture” of the late 30′s…and some of those features include drawers of special depth for different uses, and handy appliances such as clocks and radios built right into the pieces.  At this time he was creating things with an almost futuristic  approach, quite a contrast to the much more conservative pieces he made in later years).

 

In the late 30s and early 40′s he was  projecting a   style evolution like this:

Jiranek Futuristic

 

And certainly  the bedroom set has elements of that forward thinking, streamline, modernistic point of view

He was born in Grand Rapids Michigan, a place well known for furniture manufacture and he graduated from Princeton University. He founded and served as the first president of the American Designers Institute (the Industrial Designers Society of America). He was also founder and president of the Jiranek School of Furniture Design and Technology in Manhattan.

Leo Jiranek

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

Price (USD)

$ Price not available
X
© Copyright Art Deco Collection. 2024 All rights reserved.