Greek Key

Fornasetti

Piero Fornasetti, commonly features in his work include heavy use of black and white. His style is reminiscent of Greek and Roman architecture.

Mercedes Gullwing 1955

Opening upwards, the doors evoke the image of a seagull wing's.

Alain Mikli 1980's Eyeglass Designer

Christian Louboutin, shoe designer

 

French shoe designer whose high heels has incorporated shiny, red-lacquered soles. 

Andy Warhol's Portrait's

Heinrich Wölfflin

Heinrich Wölfflin, a swiss art historian who embraced new technology. He used slides extensively and was the first to use two slide projectors together so he could show details alongside the principal image, or show different images side-by-side.

Peekaboo Hairstyle, Veronica Lake

 Veronica Lake was famous for her long blonde hair that fell over one eye, this was a trend setting hairstyle.

 Veronica 'patriotically' cut it to inspire women to do the same (so it wouldn't get caught in the machinery) when they went to work during World War II.

Guéridon, furniture

A small usually ornately carved and embellished stand or table.

GUCCI

Founded in Florence in 1921, Gucci represents world class luxury, Italian heritage and modern style.

Eugene Richee, Photographer

Studio photographer who worked for Paramount Pictures from 1925 to 1935. Richee later worked for MGM and Warner Brothers. 

Actress Lousie Brooks

Page Boys, Hairstyle

It has straight hair hanging to below the ear, where it usually turns under and a heavy bang in the front. 

1920s starlet Louise Brooks has remained a popular style for almost a century

Max Miedinger

Swiss typeface designer who gave us Helvetica, a typeface that has subsumed so much of our lives that we scarcely notice its ubiquity.

Corvette Sting Ray

Kelly Bag

Grace Kelly turned an accessory by Hermès into a much-coveted item. The design was from of a 1930s Hermès saddlebag, it was simple, sensible, and superbly made. In her honor, Hermès christened this bag “the Kelly.”

Austin-Healey

                                               

The "Austin" Healey was created by Donald Healey and Donald Healey, they designed one of the great names in British car and sportscar history.

Cat Eye Eyeglasses

This was very popular in the 50's, a style of women's eyewear. They are frames have a flared upward edges which gives them a very feminine look.

Edward Steichen, photographer

Gloira Swanson, 1924

Steichen excelled in his photographic ventures of art, fashion and advertising, portraiture, nature, combat, even as a director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York . It was suggested that he also became a brand name, famous for being famous.

Jaguar, X.K. 140

British manufacturer of luxury and sports cars.

 Jaguar XK140 manufactured between 1954 and 1957 

Baroque

The artist style or art movement that greatly exaggerated or interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur of the Counter-Reformation in the seventeenth century. The Baroque style was popular in Catholic countries.

The Throne of Saint Peter, 1657-66, marble, white and gilt, and stained glass, overall about 100 feet, Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican, Rome.

Salvador Dali's Eye of Time Brooch

Eye of Time, designed by Salvador Dali in the 1940s. The Eye of Time brooch was originally created for wife Gala. The original brooch remains in the Dali museum in Spain, but several copies were made with the artist’s permission.

Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926

Gaudí with his Victorian predecessors, but he soon developed his own style, composing his works with juxtapositions of geometric masses and animating the surfaces with patterned brick or stone, bright ceramic tiles and floral or reptilian metalwork. 

Cartier's Crocodile Jewelry, Maria Felix

  In 1975 famed international actress Maria Felix, walked into the Cartier Paris shop one afternoon and brought a baby crocodile in a jar, asking to have a necklace made to feature the likeness of the crocodile. It is reportedly said that she commented that they should hurry, before the crocodile gets any bigger.

 

 Cartier, Gold, with 1,023 cut yellow diamonds with an overall weight of 60.02 carats, two navette-cut emerald cabochons, 1,060 emeralds of a total of 66.86 carats, two ruby cabochons. Entirely hinged, each crocodile can also be worn as a brooch. 

Chanel No. 5

“What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course”

                                        Marilyn Monroe           

 Chanel N°5 was first created in 1921, Chanel requested the perfume should not smell like a rose, or a lily of the valley, but as a composition. Number 5 was also her lucky number, it was also the 5th out of the 10 samples that were created for her approval.

Walter Zick and Harris Sharp

Zick and Sharp partnered in 1949 and worked together in Las Vegas, the two of them designed dozens of public schools and commercial buildings, as well as homes and professional structures. Among the most notable of their designs were the Moulin Rouge Hotel and Casino, 1955, the Mint Hotel and Casino, 1957 and the Union Plaza in 1971. 

Googie Architecture

Googie architecture was born in California, starting in the 1940's through the 1960's. Americans fascination with space created a futuristic esthetic, the term Googie has now been replaced by Mid Century Modern.

Saul Bass

  American graphic designer, best known for his design of motion picture movie posters and corporate logos.

During his 40 year career Bass worked with some of Hollywood's most prominent filmmakers, Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder and Stanley Kubrick. His most famous text was the disjointed text for Psycho.

Bass designed some of the most iconic corporate logos in America, including the Bell logo in 1969, also the AT&T globe logo in 1983. He designed Continental Airlines in 1968 jet stream logo and United Airlines 

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Tinker Hatfield

Tinker Hatfield was the designer of Air Jordans III through XV, XX, and XX3. Hatfield collaborated Air Jordans 2010 and XX8.

Pinky Ring

Pinky rings use to send a message,during the turn of the century both single men and women uninterested in marriage would wear a ring on the little finger of their left hand. In the 1950s and 1960s pinky rings became a symbol in the gay commuinity. Pinky rings also developed an association with criminal activity. 

In modern use of the pinky ring symbolism has disappeared.

Adrian

Joan Crawford, 1934

Adrian was an American designer whose famous designs were for MGM films of the 1930's and 40's. He designed for over 250 films and was often credited as "Gowns by Adrian", he also went by the name Gilbert Adrian.

Born Adrian Adolf Greenburg

Dieter Rams

                           

                                                     

As Dieter Rams once said, "Good design is as little design as possible."

Blenko Glass

Blenko was first started in 1921 by William J. Blenko. In 1954 Blenko hired Wayne Husted, He is best known among collectors for introducing a series of very large, floorstanding vases and decorative pieces. These pieces channel a futuristic esthetic, consisting of shapes and forms found in the architecture of that period, they might be in something like the cartoon "The Jetsons" to decorate their space age home. They could also be considered the decorative equivalent of the extravagant architecture many collectors are first attracted to Blenko by its colors, an area in which Blenko has a long record of innovation.

Varga Girl

Peruvian painter Alberto Vargas famously portrayed the American pin-up girl. Vargas' signature trait would be slender fingers and toes with nails painted red. During 1940 until 1947, his watercolor and airbrushed Vargas Girls were decorated on air crafts, ships, and even uniform jackets of the US servicemen during the World War II era.

Birkin Bag

The bag is a sign of wealth because its high price and its popularity amoung celebrities, jet setters and fashionistas. The Birkin bag is not just a purse, it's a lifestyle. The bags are sold exclusively at Hermès boutiques on unpredictable schedules and in limited quantities.

The first of these handbags was manufactured in the early 80′s, for english actress Jane Birkin. After being seated next to Hermès CEO Jean-Louis Dumas on a flight from Paris to London, Jane expressed her disdain for her messy datebook and her quest to find the perfect weekend bag. Dumas asked her to describe exactly what size and features she would want in such a bag, and shortly thereafter she received that bag.

Dada 1916-1924

Dada was an art movement in Europe in the early 20th century. The movement primarily involved the arts, and concentrated its antiwar politics. In addition to being anti-war, Dada was also anti-bourgeois and had politically sided with the radical left. The movement was unstable by 1924 in Paris, Dada was melding into surrealism.

Marcel Duchamps, Fountain, 1917
The work is regarded by some art historians of the avant-garde as a major landmark in 20th-century art.

Karl Lagerfeld

German fashion designer, based in Paris. He is the head designer and creative director for the fashion house Chanel, Chloe and Fendi, in addition to having his own label. 

Linda Evangelista

Art Nouveau 1880-1914

From the 1880s until the First World War, western Europe and the United States witnessed the development of Art Nouveau "New Art". Taking inspiration from organic aspects, Art Nouveau influenced architecture and especially in the arts, graphic work, and illustration. Art Nouveau's flowing line may be understood as a metaphor for the freedom and release sought by its practitioners and admirers from the weight of artistic tradition. 

Eliel Saarinen

Eliel Saarinen was a Finnish architect who became famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century. 

He became the foremost architect of his generation in Finland before he moved to the U.S. in 1923. By 1914 he was widely known in Europe for his Helsinki railroad station and urban planning projects for Reval, Estonia, and Canberra, Australia. 

From 1932 to 1948 Saarinen was president of Cranbrook Academy of Art, at Bloomfield Hills, near Detroit, and thereafter, until his death, head of the graduate department of architecture and city planning. His son, Eero Saarinen, was also an outstanding American architect.