Norman Bel Geddes Price Results

NEW YORK — Plastic is omnipresent today, but during the Machine Age, which spanned the years 1915 to 1940, it was just coming into its own as a valuable yet affordable material. Chemist Leo Baekeland, who invented Bakelite in 1907, and the American Catalin Corporation, which developed the similar thermosetting resin-based polymer it named Catalin […]

NEW YORK — The art of the cocktail is an elegant one. Don Draper in TV’s Mad Men surely made it seem so when he effortlessly hopped across an unmanned bar and made himself an Old Fashioned, plopping a sugar cube in a glass, adding bitters, water and mixing before adding whiskey. Mixed drinks have been […]

DALLAS – On Tuesday, June 6, Heritage Auctions presents an outstanding collection of design and technology history in its Design Signature® Auction. The event is packed with contemporary glass, Japanese ceramics, furniture and a standout selection of Art Deco radios from an important New York collection. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.