Miami Beach circa 1938...your Hudson automobile pulls onto Ocean Drive on South Beach...a menagerie of blinking neon marquees...hotels with the kind of Art Deco Swank that embodies the modern movement of Art Deco...post Art Deco heading into the swing of the forties...as the bell hop opens your door and retrieves your luggage you are in the lobby of the hotel to check in...carrying your very special hat box...admiring the jadeite green and mirror glass tiles of the sunken fireplace...the chrome railings that envelope the bar area and lead up a swank stairway of terrazzo floors...you are brought by your elevator man to the 10th floor penthouse suite with banks of windows overlooking the grand aqua blue Atlantic Ocean. The draperies sophisticated and colorful...epitomizing everything that IS the tropical movement of Miami Beach that took place at a time of excitement...richness...and those who had a appreciation for sophistication and flamboyance...a glitz unparalleled on the southern east coast.
This offering is for ONE very fabulous Art Deco BLACK yardage...I have 5YDS x 49 inches wide of unused original old stock upholstery/drapery grade barkcloth...BEING SOLD BY THE YARD...a striking beautiful SWANK ground with beautiful pink...merlot...burgundy calla lilies in all their pure grandeur of 1930's Art Deco Miami Beach...the juxtaposition of modern Deco architecture and the embodiment of soft cotton elements...that one without the other would be like a sundae without a cherry on top...the ultimate cherry however is the black ground barkcloth fabrics...among the most sought after of the time...for those with a more champagne taste and budget...this cotton treasure bestows something no reproduction of today's cheapened standards can never hold a candle to a unadulterated original piece like this. It is in mint unused...unwashed condition...expect to be transported back in time to 1938 Miami Beach...where your bellhop opens the door to your exquisite penthouse suite with floor to ceiling draperies in this pattern...jadeite green curvy sexy sectional...chrome bubble lamps...a mural of a mermaid on an embossed plaster wall...an elevation like no rooms on floors below...THIS textile was reserved for those with CHAMPAGNE as their middle name.
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