Mint
Condition!
$
165, the pair. G-800-L
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Fostoria
Duo
Candelabras #2598
an Art Deco Pair, by Sakier
Each
8" high x 7" wide
Ca. 1940-43
Unusual,
4-lobe central stem, reminiscent of a closed lotus
blossom, from which two arms loop down and up to
host the candle cups.
Executed in flawless crystal clear glass. Classic,
late Art Deco form by noted designer, George
Sakier.
Seldom
found, and rarely in pairs.
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BACKGROUND:
Industrial
designer, art director, and artist George Sakier
(1897–1988) applied his talent across a
spectrum of media.
Sakier studied engineering at the Pratt Institute and
Columbia University and wrote the academic textbook
Machine Design and Descriptive Geometry when he was
nineteen years old.
After his introduction to painting as a camouflage artist
during World War I, he spent three years studying painting
in Paris. He then became Assistant Art Director of French
Vogue and subsequently Art Director of Modes and
Manners and Harper's Bazaar.
In the late 1920s Sakier began designing decorative
glassware that was produced by the Fostoria Glass Company
in Moundsville, West Virginia.
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