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Cocktail Bar Perfume Presentation
This is a Cocktail Bar Perfume Presentation.
This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Anonymous as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
This bar-form set held a selection of liquor bottle–like perfume bottles entitled “Bittersweet,” “Sweet,” “Dry” and “Angostura no. 1” through “Angostura no. 7” that equated the sensuality of perfume with drinking in a not-so-subtle reference to the illicit cocktail culture during American prohibition. The empty bottle entitled “My Own” was provided to encourage the owner to mix and match her own scent. In 1928 Patou installed a women-only cocktail bar in his Paris boutique for clients, many American, to enjoy while making final decisions on garments and waiting for fittings and alterations.
It is credited Christie Mayer Lefkowith Collection.
- Drawing, Design for Bar
- graphite, red and green crayon on tracing paper.
- Gift of Donald Deskey.
- 1988-101-20
- Scarf (France)
- H x W: 89 x 85 cm (35 1/16 x 33 7/16 in.).
- Gift of Anonymous Donor.
- 1995-85-1
- Manhattan Cocktail Service
- chrome-plated brass.
- Gift of George R. Kravis II.
- 2018-22-61-a/i
Our curators have highlighted 2 objects that are related to this one.
- Perfume Presentation, Hattie Carnegie
- gilded and enameled glass.
- Christie Mayer Lefkowith Collection.
- 69.2016.7
- Bacco Cocktail Cabinet
- injection-molded abs plastic.
- Gift of The Lake St. Louis Historical Society.
- 2001-31-3
Its dimensions are
H. 10 cm (3.9 in)
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
