Lina Cavalieri Institut de Beauté, Private Treatment Room (1926) *

Artist/Designer: Designer Unknown

Project Location: Paris, France

Figure 1: c.1926 Salon treatment, possibly a Masque de Beauté. Source: Cosmetics&Skin, (2018). Digital Image. ( Source | Accessed : December 27, 2017 | Photographer: M. Thérèse Bonney )

Figure 2: c.1928 Cubicles in the Institut de Beauté. Source: Cosmetics&Skin, (2018). Digital Image. ( Source | Accessed : September 24, 2018 | Photographer: M. Thérèse Bonney )

Figure 3: c.1928 Therapists getting instructions on using a roller electrode. Source: Cosmetics&Skin, (2018). Digital Image. ( Source | Accessed : September 24, 2018 | Photographer: M. Thérèse Bonney )

Style/Period(s):
Modern, Post Modern

Primary Material(s):
Fabric, Textile, Color

Function(s):
Health Facility

Related Website(s):

The Morals of Pink and Blue Hair | Accessed : September 24, 2018

Therese Bonney & Paris Moderne | Accessed : September 24, 2018

Lina Cavalieri | Accessed : October 29, 2018

Significant Date(s):
20th Century, 1914, 1905, 1926

Additional Information:
Publications/Texts in Print:

Cavalieri, Lina. My Secrets of Beauty. New York: Circulation Syndicate, Incorporated, 1914.
"LINA CAVALIERI RETURNS." New York Times (1857-1922) (New York, N.Y.), 1913.

Building Address:
1905 Lina Cavalieri opened a perfume ship in NYC : 240 Fifth Avenue, New York [No longer there]
In 1926 Lina Cavalieri started the Institut de Beauté and Académie de Coiffure that opened in Paris on the Avenue Victor Emanuel III in 1926 [No longer there]

Significant Dates: NA.

Supporting Staff/ Designers: NA.

Tags: Aesthetics, Ornaments, Beauty, Feminism, Womanhood

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