His works were collected by famous clients, including Billy Baldwin, Marilyn Monroe, and a number of high-fashion New York families.
His focus turned to Expressionist painting during the final 15 years of his life, no longer working on designing furniture.
A 1939 LIFE article stated that his silverware was unique in its "light, graceful feeling and fine etched decoration".
[6] Parzinger's works were titled "high-style modernism", which represented a "more idiosyncratic, rarefied midcentury design".
Most of the pieces he created were custom-built for large studios, with Parzinger using "cosmopolitan-looking designs, involving costly, craft-intensive materials and processes like brass work and lacquer".