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 with a Hawaiian twist...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 ICONIC and very rare barkcloth pattern that has not been seen since the early online market days of the mid 90's and early 2000's. I have TWO available sold individually. It is a ready to hang drapery panel that are part of my original collection buying an estate in Palm Beach in 1995...this was part of it.....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. Part of a page out of the chapter of "this is it folks"...it likely won't come around again. Measures 44 inches wide x 80 inches long. Lots of soft colors...varied lavender purple pinks...shell pink...soft minty aqua...cocoas and chocolates...dark and creamy limes...cirtin yellow with creamy accents. These panels are to be hung by rod pocket and or drapery pins...there is a nice generous 5 inch hem. These flawless...sweet as can be aloha gold. Flawless.
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