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 ready to hang drapery panel...I have FoUR of these available sold individually...so you can buy as many as you need to transform your life. A very rare barkcloth pattern that has not been seen since the early online market days of the mid 90's and early 2000's...these types of patterns really told the story of the Art Deco days of textiles being designed in the movements and aesthetics of architecture and design styles of the hotels being built on Ocean Drive...hotels build with their own special deco special-ness that was streamline moderne...the use of movement in the lines...floating...rounded curves...square windows with a mod port hole windows in varied sizes that look like bubble blowing in the wind...all of it embodies a movement of Art Deco Miami...where a whole plethora of textiles were inspired and created by the city by the sea. A deco handsomeness that transcends South Beach...bleeds wonderfully paralleling the Hawaiiana patterns inspired by the islands. A soft creamy gray ground with orchid burgundy purples...deep rich raspberry...eye popping electric chartreuse..teal turquoise green...jadeite...creamy lemon...bubble gum pink...milky cocoa chocolate...with deep dark chocolate and white accents on a gracious creamy dove gray ground. The tops are pleated and they look like they were barely if ever used...the back side shows no sign of sun damage or use. Each panel measures 22 inches at pleats...45 inches wide at bottom width and a generous 88 inches long with a 3 inch hem.
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