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CHICAGO ART DECO SOCIETY

UPCOMING EVENTS 


  • The Chicago Art Deco Society and the Caxton Club invite you to a Zoom presentation: Emulation or Inspiration? Japanese Design Books and Art Deco Teri J. Edelstein & Lisa Pevtzow

    • 14 May 2024
    • 6:30 PM
    • 5/14/2024 6:30 PM CT/7:30 PM ET Zoom presentation is free and open to all. Preregistration required via website.
    Join the Chicago Art Deco Society and the Caxton Club for a Zoom presentation by Teri J. Edelstein and Lisa Pevtzow, with real-time Q & A session to follow.

    Design books, Zuan-cho, were tools of Japan’s kimono trade centered in Kyoto. These textile pattern books began in the late 17th and 18th century with mainly naturalistic designs. By the end of the 19th century, printed by hand in color woodblock, their designs were often startling, experimental, aspirational, as well as traditional. A number of designs, even from the 1890s, look to our eyes as being Art Deco in style. They form, not only fascinating documents of the Japanese textile tradition, often with embedded symbolism, but a dynamic exemplar of Japan/Japonisme—demonstrating the influences and counterinfluences between Japan and the West.

    Dr. Teri J. Edelstein, curator and museum consultant, is principal of Teri J. Edelstein Associates, Museum Strategies. She served as Deputy Director of The Art Institute of Chicago and previously as director of The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. She has taught at several universities.

    Lisa Pevtzow has been collecting Japanese design books and textiles for more than than 20 years. Her books have been digitized by Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, as part of an effort to create a digital archive of Japanese cultural materials in museums and private collections in the United States and Europe. Some of her books and textiles will be on view in the current exhibit “Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan” at the Smart Museum.

    Click here to register on the Caxton Club website.

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  • The Chicago Art Deco Society Presents: “When the World Went Dry” Songs and Stories from the Age of Prohibition

    • 12 Jun 2024
    • 5:00 PM
    • 12 June 2024 5:00 pm Location: The Cliff Dwellers Club 200 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago

    Prohibition: When America embarked on an experiment that proved to be a spectacular failure. Yet, the people who lived through it remembered the era as a wonderful time: jazz, dancing, flappers, short skirts, cocktails, hot cars, and Art Deco design.

    In this illustrated presentation, by author Joe Gustaitis, with music by the 1920s specialists Paul Asaro and Erin Riley, we will travel back to this flamboyant era.

    We’ll hear the stories; learn how it all came about and was ultimately repealed. We’ll get the recipes for cocktails imbibed in 1920s Chicago; learn how others traveled abroad to find a drink. And we’ll be treated to authentic songs from the period, many of which are unexpectedly hilarious.

    The Cliff Dwellers Club

    200 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago

    5:00 pm: Cash Bar Opens

    5:30 pm: Three Course Dinner

    6:30 pm: Music Program Begins

    Cost:

    $56 per person for dinner and program or,

    $25 for program only. A portion of the proceeds goes towards the cost of the performers.

    Reservations are Required:

    RSVP by June 10, 2024 – Space is limited.

    Reservations can be made by email to:

    reservations@cliff-chicago.org

    or, by calling 312-922-8080.

    Additional Questions:

    For additional questions regarding the venue, dinner, parking, or general reservations, please contact the Cliff Dwellers. For questions about the presentation, please contact Kevin Palmer at kpalmer@chicagodeco.org.

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NEWS


    The Chicago Art Deco Society is honored to announce that we have been selected to host the 2027 International Coalition of Art Deco Societies World Congress 

    ICADS NEWS

    October 2023

    2027 WORLD CONGRESS ON ART DECO HOST CITY ANNOUNCED:

    CHICAGO, HERE WE COME!


    We are pleased to report that Chicago has been selected as the host of the 2027 World Congress on Art Deco! Chicago has a rich architectural heritage including stellar examples of Art Deco. It was also home to the Century of Progress World's Fair in 1933-34, one of the defining events of the movement. Ideas for Pre- and Post-Congresses include Milwaukee, Wisconsin as well as visits to Racine, Wisconsin and Oak Park, Illinois to see the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. We look forward to working with the Chicago Art Deco Society as plans evolve for the 2027 World Congress.
     

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