Harvey G Schwartz:  

Life The book: Tropical Comfort Throughout the House by Harvey Schwartz . In 1959, when the space race began, Harvey Schwartz worked on space-related products. When contracts ran out in 1969, he turned to his growing collections of memorabilia and opened an antique store on Third Street in LA. He was attracted to forms of Art Deco design. Business grew and by the 1970s he moved to a store on Melrose Avenue and began providing Art Deco furniture to movie stars and other fashionable clients. Barbra Streisand was a good customer who furnished her main house with Art Deco and her guest house at the beach with Harvey’s rattan furniture. In search of rattan he found Tropical Sun Rattan Company in Pasadena. This company was then selling awnings but had a warehouse of old stock rattan furniture still in their import boxes. The stock included all sorts of rattan designs, from the two-strand, arm varieties to the full twelve-strand, pretzel-arm styles which are very rare. Harvey arranged to buy the whole rattan inventory and the righ...Expand for more