GE Tuileries Cobalt Blue Mirror Clock Art Deco Telechron Quiet Accurate 1930s. 4H68 Streamline Complete All Original. COBALT BLUE MIRRORED 1930s ELECTRIC CLOCK in. Very Good Working Condition!!! This is a rare stylish 1930s Art Deco or Streamline design. This beauty was named after the. It features really cool cobalt blue mirrored glass on the base and the face. There is a chrome pedestal, slim white hands and hour marks. It has the original rubbery black cord molded to a non-polar plug in fairly good condition a few defects.. Looks safe to me. But, you may want to replace it. All of the original screws and time knob are intact. The works have been cleaned and oiled. So, it should run for a few more decades. The Telechron rotor is very quiet, with not enough of a very slight buzz to worry about. It keeps accurate time. The hands are original, in good condition, and have very minor paint loss. The back of the clock looks really good with slight signs of wear and no cracks or repairs. The original black felt bottom is in good shape. The mirroring has typical slight blackening in places that is hardly noticeable with no cracks, chips, or repairs. Overall, the mirroring of the face and the base; the chrome, the hands, etc. Look fantastic especially for an over 80 year old. EXPERT RESTORATION OILED Cleaned Polished. You would not want to pay another clock-smith for the time I put into this restoration. This is an electric General Electric clock model 4H68, named the Tuileries. It was made between 1937 and 1939. It measures about 6.5 tall x 5.5 wide. It was designed by John Rainbault. A wonderfully stylish’Tuileries’ Streamline/Art Deco electric desk clock, featuring a blue mirror glass face and base, manufactured by General Electric in the United States in the 1930’s. In the 1930’s a pioneer group of American designers, artists and architects forged a new American design aesthetic: American Moderne, or Streamline. Their work moved away from the decoration of French Art Deco towards the clean lines and geometric forms of German and Scandinavian functionalism. The term Streamline refers to hydrodynamic (water) and aerodynamic (air) principles which emerged from the physics of fluid dynamics. A streamline (note the lowercase’s’) is an arc of flow, like the air passing over the top of a car in motion. Streamline, the style, emerged from the design of airplanes, automobiles and marine vessels. It was originally an effect of function that was applied to objects such as clocks, radios and pencil sharpeners – objects which do not move! As Norman Bel-Geddes, one of the style’s best-known proponents, wrote “An object is streamlined when its exterior surface is so designed that upon passing through a fluid such as water or air the object creates the least disturbance in the fluid”. Streamline design differed from Art Deco in that the latter was primarily concerned with upward motion, such as the rise of a skyscraper, and was embellished with angular geometric details. Streamline, in contrast, is rounded and curved. For example, a Streamline building has horizontal bands that look as if they would allow wind to flow smoothly around it. General Electric pioneered the application of Streamline/Art Deco styling to clock designs, starting with the Paul Frankl-designed’Modernique’. They had a team of industrial designers working on new models – some of them so successful that their work has been attributed to other, more famous, designers. This clock – GE model 4H68 – was made between 1937 and 1939. Featuring a stunning blue-coloured mirror glass and standing atop a blue-coloured mirror glass base – the face held in position by a single screw covered with a cap embossed with the GE logo – it is now considered a design classic. This stylish’Tuileries’ desk clock is an excellent and much sought-after example of Streamline design: it shows an absence of ornament, the use of new technologies and materials, and the application of mass production to create an affordable and attractive consumer object. Is typically a flat rate to the lower 48 states. This is just a very, very time and labor intensive hobby for me. I put a lot of time, materials, and. Great care into my packaging. If the postal carrier breaks something or you have other concerns, please contact me with a question so I can make it right. It is my goal to provide the very best customer service possible. Upon satisfaction please provide 5 Star. And I will return the favor. I do my best to describe and picture items well. Most antiques/of my items show normal and expected signs of age and wear that may not be described in minute detail. Are a vital part of the item. Your responsibility should be to. The pictures and item description. Please ask any and all questions. Moderne, Machine Age, Eames Era, Streamline, Shabby Chic. This clock is one of the most collectible clocks of all time. This could be the cherry on top of your art deco bedroom or collection! FANTASTIC, COLLECTIBLE EXAMPLE OF ART DECO OR STREAMLINE HISTORY. VERY TASTEFUL DISPLAY PIECE, FUNCTIONAL CLOCK, WORKING PROPERLY. The item “GE TUILLERIES COBALT BLUE Mirror Clock Art Deco Telechron QUIET Acrte 1930s 4H68″ is in sale since Saturday, January 14, 2017. This item is in the category “Antiques\Periods & Styles\Art Deco”. The seller is “1decofun” and is located in North Carolina. This item can be shipped to United States.
- Maker: GE General Electric, Telechron
- Original/Reproduction: Original
- Color: Cobalt Blue Mirror