Keep Young and Beautiful!
"Keep young and beautiful: it's your duty to be beautiful!" begins Al Dublin and Harry Warren's London revue song of 1933. And what better way for a Deco flapper to follow their advice than with this beautiful dressing table set?
This wonderfully Art Deco streamlined six piece jade green Bakelite, chrome and glass travelling dressing table set, consisting of brush, comb, powder pots and a perfume bottle, was made in England by the Halex Company (1897 - 1971) of Highams Park (which is a district in the London). The set, which comes with its own travelling case of green dyed leather to match with a salmon coloured satin lining also has one original powder puff in apricot, one in pale pink and one in primrose yellow.
When acquired from a local auctioneers, the set was also found to include a little red Bakelite pot with the letter L embossed on its lid. It is in fact a pot of 1930s "mandarin" Leichner Cosmetics (1878 - present) rouge, which still contains its original sponge, a mirror on the inside of the lid, and most of the contents, which are a wonderful shade of vermilion.
Private collection.
Keep Young and Beautiful!
"Keep young and beautiful: it's your duty to be beautiful!" begins Al Dublin and Harry Warren's London revue song of 1933. And what better way for a Deco flapper to follow their advice than with this beautiful dressing table set?
This wonderfully Art Deco streamlined six piece jade green Bakelite, chrome and glass travelling dressing table set, consisting of brush, comb, powder pots and a perfume bottle, was made in England by the Halex Company (1897 - 1971) of Highams Park (which is a district in the London). The set, which comes with its own travelling case of green dyed leather to match with a salmon coloured satin lining also has one original powder puff in apricot, one in pale pink and one in primrose yellow.
When acquired from a local auctioneers, the set was also found to include a little red Bakelite pot with the letter L embossed on its lid. It is in fact a pot of 1930s "mandarin" Leichner Cosmetics (1878 - present) rouge, which still contains its original sponge, a mirror on the inside of the lid, and most of the contents, which are a wonderful shade of vermilion.
Private collection.