Word: deskey
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...International Music Hall in the northwest corner of Rockefeller Center, first unit to approach a state of polish and finish. Hearing rumors of a splendiferous interior, they waited for jobs. In April the architects announced: "Preference will be given the American artist." Last week U. S. decorator Donald Deskey was picked to design the interior of International Music Hall, world's largest theatre...
First an architect in California, then a painter in Chicago, then an interior decorator in Manhattan, Decorator Deskey is credited with the introduction of tubular metal furniture to the U. S. He promised "sane modern design" for International Music Hall, to be used for vaudeville under Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel's direction.* Already a score of artists were planning details...
Noteworthy in International Music Hall is the use of modern industrial materials with which Donald Deskey has always been potent. Out of Bakelite, chromium-plated steel, pyroxalin, aluminum, linoleum, he proposes to create "an effect of splendor and magnificence...