.: Tour around Berlin in 1929 :.

.: Table Lamp, Chrome and Glass :.

.: Folding Camera AGFA Billy-Record 8.8 :.

Agfa Billy Record is a series of medium format film folding camera made by AGFA and produced between 1933 and 1949. Billy record cameras were listed in catalogs by lens openings as models 8.8, 7.7, 6.3 and 4.5. The names are based on the maximum lens opening. The basic body is the same for 8.8, 7.7 and 6.3 models. All models use 120 roll film for 6x9cm frames. The lens is Agfa Anastigmat Igestar in Automat shutter in 8.8, 7.7 and 6.3 models. There are some cosmetic variations, like chrome decors, during their production period.

.: Bronze Statue "Ivresse" by Guerbe for Max Le Verrier :.

Fayral and Guerbe were 2 pseudonyms used by the famous Pierre Le Faguays. Fayral and Guerbe were both the family names for his mother and wife. Pierre Le Faguays was born in Nantes, France and became famous for the originality he gave his dancers, many of which were inspired by the statues of Tanagra. Like Chiparus, Faguays' sculptures did a great deal for perpetuating the 1920s version of the ideal female form - all lithe athleticism with nimph like physiques. He gained a medal of honour for his work in 1927. He was a best friend of Max Le Verrier and the Le Verrier foundry made most of - if not all of his pieces. For collectors original works by Faguays command high fees and his work really embodies the 1920s aesthetic.

.: Eadweard Muybridge :.

.: JAZ Alarm Clock "Le Gotic", 1931 :.

.: Sterling Silver Coffee Pot :.

 This is a very handsome little pot with a wooden lid knob / handle and with  lots of character.

.: Josephine Baker - Black is Beautiful :.

Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) was a dancer, singer, and actress who found fame in her adopted homeland of France. (EN / GER)

.: Beer-Warmers by WMF :.

When I first saw these vintage nickel-silver cylinders from WMF, I thought they were some sort of special test tubes from a mad scientist’s laboratory. These metal canisters, however, are like thermoses and would be filled with water and kept aside in a warm bath to be on hand and ready to warm a customer's beer.

Beer ought to be enjoyed just below room temperature and apparently there was enough cold beer and enough particular customers to create a demand for such fancy and fussy things. The pair bear the older mark WÜRTT[EMBERGISHER] METALLW[ARE] FABRIK GEISLINGEN-STEIGE NS (for Nickel-Silver) with a WMF impress and a 3.6. A third chrome beer-warmer is in the background for illustration purposes, to show how they would hang on the brim of the mug. and not get in the way of one's enjoyment.

.: Coffee Grinder by "ELKA" :.

We've just bought an old coffee grinder. It's supposed to be from the 1930's and is produced by "Elka Mühlenbau" in Hamburg, Germany. It's a model used to grind whole bags of coffee at once. The former owner told us, that his grandfather used it in his little shop for many years. The model is called NE0. If anybody knows a little more about this steady old grinder and factory, just leave a comment.

.: Metropolis (1927) by Fritz Lang :.

Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist film in the science-fiction genre directed by Fritz Lang.  It´s set in a futuristic urban dystopia and makes use of this context to explore the social crisis between workers and owners inherent in capitalism. The film was produced in the Babelsberg Studios by Universum Film A.G. (UFA). Metropolis was cut substantially after its German premiere, and much footage was lost over the passage of successive decades. There have been several efforts to restore it, as well as discoveries of previously lost footage. A 2001 reconstruction of Metropolis, shown at the Berlin Film Festival, was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in that same year. In 2008, a copy of the film 30 minutes longer than any other known surviving copy was located in Argentina. After a long period of restoration in Germany, the restored film was shown publicly for the first time simultaneously at Berlin and Frankfurt on 12 February 2010. Today, Metropolis is widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, and Lang's finest achievement as a director. (source: Wikipedia)

.: Barometer by Zeiss Ikon :.

Chromium plated Barometer by ZEISS IKON A.G. GOERZ WERK, BERLIN ZEHLENDORF, circa 1935. The barometer is graduated in Zoll / Milimeters. (Standard atmospheric pressure is 760 Torr equal to 760 mm mercury column equal to 1013 hPa )

.: Wooden cased Alarm Clock by Bayard :.

.: French Marble Alarm Clock by Albert Villon :.

In 1867, Albert Villon established his clockmaking shop in Saint Nicholas / Normandy and began creating small 'domestic' alarm and mantle clocks, utilizing Japy Frères' famous enamel dials. Villon identified his clocks by includiing his initials A.V. on the back and added his logo, the "lion passant" or walking lion which became the trademark for over eighty years. (from sushi´s blog)

.: The Roaring Twenties - Dance Craze :.

.: French Bakelite Alarm Clock by JAZ :.

.: French Table Lamp by Limousin :.

.: French Bakelite Alarm Clock by Bayard :.

Clockmaking was the economic engine of the small village of Saint Nicholas D'Aliermont in Normandy for over 250 years. In 1902 the Company Albert Villon, Duverdrey et Bloquel was rebaptized Duverdrey & Bloquel, in 1928 the brand name Bayard was retained. Bayard was chosen in reference to a character of French history known as the Chevalier de Bayard, who was without fear and without reproach. (from sushi´s blog)