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Decopix Art Deco Patent Of The Week-Vacuum Cleaner by Brooks Stevens
Hugely influential yet comparatively unknown, midwesterner Brooks Stevens (1911-1995) was among the most important industrial designers. 
Decopix Art Deco Patent Of The Week-Prohibition Lamp
Our previous Art Deco Patent of the Week was both of the Depression and somewhat depressing, itself. But there could be gaiety, even during hard times as can be seen in Abraham Levy’s lamp from 1934.
Decopix Art Deco Patent of the Week-Depression Clock by F.J. Abel
Somehow, this clock speaks to depression with both a “D” and a small one.
Decopix Art Deco Patent of the Week-Thermostat by Brooks Stevens
Was this delightful streamlined thermostat the work of Gilbert Rhode or Henry Dreyfuss? Well, neither. But someone just as influential.
Decopix Art Deco Patent of the Week – Deco Diner by Roland Stickney
Roland Stickney, who made cars look fast and streamlined, did the same for restaurants.
Decopix Art Deco Patent of the Week – Handless Clock by M.A. Vinas
Some people have gotten the idea that Lawson and Pennwood were the first digital clocks. Not by a long shot.
Decopix Art Deco Patent of the Week – A Tale of 2 Toasters
Toasters were the perfect blank canvas for crisp new Art Deco and Streamline Moderne styles.
Decopix Art Deco Patent of the Week – Mastercrafter’s Fantasy Clock
John L. Hancock’s design for Chicago’s Mastercrafter’s Company is interesting in many ways.