Iowa Tea Rooms
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Iowa State Tea Room Gallery, in alphabetical order by name of city or town. | Iowa State Tea Room Gallery, in alphabetical order by name of city or town. | ||
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+ | [[File:YWCA-Tea-Room-Cedar-Rapids-IA-postcard-front-c1910.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Y.W.C.A. Tea Room, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, postcard front, circa 1910. The image reproduces an uncredited sepia-tone painting of the Mission-style oak furnishings of the Young Women's Christian Association Tea Room in Cedar Rapids. Realistic illustrations of this kind, taken from photos with the tonalities heightened for the half-tone reproduction process, were a notable feature in commercial art from 1900 - 1920, and were used in catalogues to advertise furniture, hardware, and clothing. This painting, combining impressionistic floral arrangements with detailed brick-work, furniture, lighting fixtures, and door hardware, was obviously made by a highly gifted professional catalogue illustrator.]] | ||
== Des Moines == | == Des Moines == | ||
- | [[File:Younker-Brothers-Depatment-Store-Tea-Room-Lounge-Des-Moines-Iowa.jtg.jpg|center|thumb|600px| | + | [[File:Younker-Brothers-Depatment-Store-Tea-Room-Lounge-Des-Moines-Iowa.jtg.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Tea Room Lounge, Younker Brothers Department Store, Des Moines, Iowa, interior, postcard front, 1920s. The Moorish-style waiting room adjacent to the tea rooms on the top floor of the Younker Brothers Department Store looks like a movie set. Through the arches in the background, patrons would enter the art deco Garden Room.]] |
[[File:Younker-Brothers-Garden-Room-Tea-Room-Des-Moines-IA-interior-postcard-front.jpg|center|thumb|400px|A corner of the Garden Room in Younker Tea Room, Younker Brothers Department Store, Des Moines, Iowa, interior, postcard front. The combination of brightly-painted furniture, stylized art deco trompe l'oeil wall mural, and live potted plants makes the Garden Room the most attractive of the several tea rooms at Younker Brothers Department Store. ]] | [[File:Younker-Brothers-Garden-Room-Tea-Room-Des-Moines-IA-interior-postcard-front.jpg|center|thumb|400px|A corner of the Garden Room in Younker Tea Room, Younker Brothers Department Store, Des Moines, Iowa, interior, postcard front. The combination of brightly-painted furniture, stylized art deco trompe l'oeil wall mural, and live potted plants makes the Garden Room the most attractive of the several tea rooms at Younker Brothers Department Store. ]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 21:05, 5 December 2020
Iowa State Tea Room Gallery, in alphabetical order by name of city or town.
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Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Sioux City
catherine yronwode
curator, historian, and docent
The Mystic Tea Room