Don Deskey Machine Age Somerset Lamp c 1970s-80s L688

Streamline moderne revival table lamp of great panache and fierce design that fits beautifully into the post-modernism of its own era, now seeing its own resurgence.   

Measures 22" x 18" x 18".

Donald Sidney Deskey was born in Blue Earth, Minnesota. He studied architecture at the University of California, but did not follow that profession, becoming instead an artist and a pioneer in the field of Industrial design. He attended the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris, which influenced his approach to design. He went on to establish a design consulting firm in New York City and later the firm of Deskey-Vollmer (in partnership with Phillip Vollmer), which specialized in furniture and textile design. His designs in this era progressed from Art Deco to Streamline Moderne.

His company is still in operation in Cincinnati. A collection of his work is held by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.^[He died in Vero Beach, Florida, the town to which he had retired in 1975.