silver plate Art Deco Coffee Service restoration

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Art Deco Coffee Service

1930s, German

The handles of this handsome Art Deco silver plate coffee and tea service were weak in their original design. We strengthened the joints of the broken handles, reassembled the pots and blended the colors to match.

restoration of Art Deco chrome coffee service with broken handles, before restoration. This is only one example of Art Deco objects which we repair. Art Deco sculptures and figurines are others.
Note the broken joint end of the handle, made of an early plastic. Attached to the pot by pins which go through the holes in the pot's 'ferrule', the handle fractured, like a broken tooth.

Art Deco coffee pot set restoration. Art Deco design of the 1930's came from the Bauhaus, the famous art school and movement of Twentieth Century Germany. Hitler closed the Bauhaus, but many of the artists, craftsmen, and designers continued to work in Germany. This accounts for the powerful influence of German design even as the Third Reich was killing and persecuting these artists.
Completed restoration and conservation of the set. A crucial final step is blending the colors at the joint, and reintegrating the colors of all parts of the set.