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Elegantly designed but inexpensive to produce (and probably quite welcome in the days before air-conditioning), chic paper fans, styled to look like fashion illustrations, were widely used as advertising tools. This fan promotes Maison Prunier, a fashionable seafood restaurant that opened in Paris in 1925.
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Title: Advertising fan
Designer:
Unknown Designer
Date: ca. 1925
Medium: Paper, wood, metal
Dimensions:
H. 10-3/4 in. (27.3 cm.)
Classification: Fans
Credit Line: Gift of Primavera Gallery, 1982
Object Number: 1982.78.3
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