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Edgar Brandt Letter Opener
$1,500
This Edgar Brandt Letter Opener features four fiddleheads in wrought iron. These tightly coiled shoots are further detailed with a dark patina, filling each young leaf with exquisite detail. During the turn of the century, Europe was struck with pteridomania, also known as the fern craze, whereby all class and creed of people collected ferns. Edgar Brandt became famous for his spiral motif, namely his fiddlehead ferns & cabbage roses. Gracing the staircases of designers such as Paul Poiret, Edgar Brandt was always in vogue.
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Item #: A-21527
Artist: Edgar Brandt
Country: France
Circa: 1919
Dimensions: 12.625" height, 1.5" width, 0.5" depth.
Materials: Wrought Iron
Signed: E. Brandt
Literature: Kahr, Joan. Edgar Brandt : Art Deco Ironwork. New, expanded ed, Schiffer Publishing, 2010.p. 67
The universality of the spiral motif in nature reinforced ideas of there being a divine order to nature, as many had believed. This was reinforced with the publication of kunstformen der natur by Ernest Haeckel in 1899.