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Thursday, April 24, 2014

Eleanor Penner's Vanity Showing Perfume Bottles c1938

This photograph shows a vanity designed by Paul T. Frankl, who furnished the Los Angeles home of comedian and radio personality Joe Penner and his wife Eleanor in 1938. Photo and information from http://tinselcreation.com/2013/11/

The perfumes I can readily identify are:

Vol de Nuit by Guerlain c1933
Fleurs de Rocaille by Caron c1934
Unidentified Coty bottle
Pois de Senteur de Chez Moi by Caron c1927
Blue Grass by Elizabeth Arden c1934
Bellodgia by Caron c1927
Cassandra by Weil c1936
Shanghai by Lentheric c1934
Shalimar by Guerlain c1925
Toujours Fidele by D'Orsay c1912
Risque Tout by Lentheric c1935
Indiscret by Lucien Lelong c1935
Tabac Blond by Caron c1919
Vega by Guerlain c1936
Sous le Vent by Guerlain c1933
Liu by Guerlain c1929
My Sin by Lanvin c1924
Several unidentified bottles

Plus some Czech cut crystal bottles scattered around the vanity.

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