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 terazzo 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 ICONIC and SWANK yardage of unused fantabulous barkcloth...2,5YDS x 49 inches widea colorway sure to bring you to your knees with orgasmic delight...what I love about this upholstery fabric is by the time the mid 50's came around...they were experimenting with so many textured warps and wefts...creating a very not so subtle raised texture that looks like little swimming side way fishies...and the most intoxicating design and colorway atop that surely will make your head spin with delight...to top it off it has a gold lurex threading sewn through the creamy ecru cotton...adding the most fabulous mid century detail...but it is definitely the colorway that is ELECTRIC...and has the potential to slip into your soul and do things nothing new of today can...because it is vintage...the creator long passed...you just cannot duplicate provenance. Bold turquoise blue greens are just SMASHING beside the chartreuse lemon yellow...tangerine coral...red...lime...chocolate...with black and white accents. Signed "A Spectrum Original Vat Color". In brand new 1950's cond.
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