#1930s home furnishings

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Carpet designs by Ivan Da Silva Bruhns, Jean Lurçat, Evelyn Wyld and Victor Boberman in the September 1930 French Vogue.

(source: Gallica)

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Adorable, colorful 1930 home in Bluffton, SC has 2bds, 1ba, $549K. And, it's being sold fully furnished!

Look at the lovely street it's on. It's actually a beach house, b/c it's near Bluffton Beach, and you can use a golf cart to get around.

Enter thru the huge front porch. This is like a studio apt. itself.

It's so cheery and bright. I love the peach couch!

The kitchen is adorable. It has blue appliances!

Bedroom #1- the original door is painted peach.

There's an armoire and a pretty, mint green night stand. I love when nice furniture is included.

Big beachy bath has a beautiful sink and blue tile. This is so nice.

The 2nd bedroom features a cute trundle bed and a blue dresser.

I think that's a driveway behind the house, with a place to park the cars, but the yard is big enough to have potential for a patio.

The house is very close to the May River. 3,802 sq ft lot

I can't believe there's no HOA fee. There' a lovely park by the river.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/39-Oyster-St-Bluffton-SC-29910/68797762_zpid/?

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CHAUMET ART DECO DIAMOND TIARA

"Property from the Collection of Margaret Thompson Biddle

CHAUMET ART DECO DIAMOND TIARA Old-cut diamonds, platinum (French marks), circa 1930, maker's mark.

Margaret Thompson Biddle was born in Helena, Montana in 1896. She was the daughter of notable copper miner and financier, William Boyce Thompson.

Margaret’s father was born and raised around mining in Montana, so it was no surprise that he went on to make a name for himself in the copper mining industry. He attended the prestigious Philips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and Columbia University. After retiring from the New York Stock Exchange around 1915, Thompson’s interests returned back to mining where he founded the Newmont Mining Corporation.

Margaret Thompson married Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr. in 1931. That year he was also appointed the Minister to Norway by President Roosevelt, and then Ambassador to Poland 1937. This role led Biddle and his family all over the world. After fleeing Poland in 1939, they landed in England for one of Anthony’s commissions. In this position, he worked with the governments-in-exile of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Yugoslavia. Biddle held numerous ambassador positions in the years that followed before re-enlisting in the army in 1944.

Margaret relocated to France after she and Anthony separated at the end of World War II. She had a home on the French Riviera, and a spectacular hotel particulier on the notable boulevard St. Germain in Paris. Not only was she a writer and author of The Women of England, Margaret was also known to be quite the hostess and socialite. One could find the Eisenhowers, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and many other notable French creatives at her soirees.

In addition to having a wonderful jewelry collection, Margaret was an avid collector of fine porcelain, silver, home furnishings and art by the most distinguished artists and makers. She gifted a 1,575 piece dinnerware service to former First Lady Eisenhower. Select pieces of the ‘Vermeil’ collection are still on display at The White House present day."

- Christies

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Hc that Nico and Hazel like wearing clothes and listening to music from their childhoods together because it gives them a sense of comfort, a sense of familiarity, a sense of ‘I’m home, after all this pain I’m home again’

Oh totally! I love the headcanon that Nico and Hazel both listen to a lot of swing music and sometimes dance together, just cause it's comforting and nice to them to be reminded that they're not alone, and that there's someone around who remembers the 1930s too.

One of my big headcanons for the death sibs actually is that when Nico renovates Cabin 13, he leans a lot into vintage and 1930s-esque decor and furnishing. Basically he tries to recreate something similar to what he and Hazel grew up with, because it's their space! And they have the freedom to do whatever they want! They might as well make it what's comforting to them and is their idea of home.

So the inside of Cabin 13 has like, colorful walls and patterned wallpaper and lots of old photos everywhere and dark wood, etc etc. You know they have a gramophone in there somewhere. And when others visit it's simultaneously "Oh, huh, I expected something more... goth" and "Actually somehow yeah this feels expected and correct." It's a little Addams family-esque but with slightly more color. That's the vibe in my brain.

[bidaubadeadieu]

Photos of Hugh Hayden's Exhibition Home Work, as seen at the Rose Art Museum (Brandeis University), 2024. Throughout this post, text present in the gallery (written by museum curators, not me) is intended in block quotes.

Through his prodigious studio practice, Hugh Hayden (b. 1983, Dallas, TX) has become one of the leading artists of his generation. His meticulously crafted sculptures, hybrid forms, and poignant installations evoke profound reflections on the human condition within a complex, volatile, and often threatening world. hayden combines a probing analysis of serious and often painful topics with humor, visual puns, and wordplay, provoking a unique blend of visceral and critical responses.

I was captivated by Hayden's work from the moment I stepped into the gallery. Really stunning stuff. Names of all pieces in this post (left to right, top to bottom), as well as excerpts from gallery text, can be found below the Read More. I highly encourage you to check it out in more detail!

American Gothic (2024)

Hayden merges two skeletal figures with agricultural and domestic tools, examining aspects pertaining to labor and the dignity of work. The artist deliberately positions himself as part of a genealogy of American artists, referencing Grant Wood's 1930 painting American Gothic and Gordon Parks's 1942 photograph, American Gothic.

Eden (2022)

Eden presents two ribcages locked together in an intimate embrace. Hanging on a clothes rack, the ribcages are meticulously crafted from cedar wood, a material often used where clothes are stored to repel moths. The fact that the skeletal lovers are closeted suggests that this embrace needs to be kept a secret. The title references the bliss associated with the biblical Garden of Eden.

Hangers (2018)

High Cotton (2015-2020)

High Cotton, emulating and arcade claw machine, is clad in lustrous, Chippendale-inspired Honduran mahogany, carved to the recall the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century furnishings of high society. Sharp-edged cotton balls (replacing the game's expected toys) force a player to "pick cotton," a task directly associated with slavery. The work highlights the raw material used to produce the fine cotton clothing found around the world--and once neatly folded inside the mahogany armoires of slave owners.

Fairy Tale (2023)

Fairy Tale features a pair of interlocking Tiffany rings, with HIV-prevention medication replacing the expected diamonds or gems. The title suggests a "happily-ever-after" gay love story for those who once lived in the shadow of AIDS. The word "fairy" in the title, sometimes used as a slur, is here reclaimed with pride.

The Kiss (2020)

In The Kiss, two football helmets are caught together like stags whose horns are locked in battle. Their interlocking forms and the title of the piece suggest a range of relationships, from homosocial camaraderie to same-sex intimacy. Many of Hayden's sports-related sculptures expose the fact that the very devices supposed to protect may also wound. The Kiss recalls the high number of brain injuries suffered by football players.

Positives (2019-2024)

Hedges (2019)

This installation features a model of an archetypal suburban home. Rather than associating the domestic with security, Hayden transforms the familiar abode into an unsettling place where menacing branches sprout from and overpower the structure's walls, window, and roof. Hedges is experienced within a mirrored chamber that situates the viewer amid an endless row of uncanny houses. Hayden often notes that home ownership is considered one of the key goals of achieving the American dream. Yet this path is hardly assured for many people, given the inequities in society and the financial precarity that so many endure. As shown here and throughout the exhibition, Hayden's visceral sculptures reveal the disquieting contradictions of the American dream.

[dwellordream]

“By 1930, 40 percent of white and black working women were wives, one-third with children under age 13, but they still constituted only 11.7 percent of all wives. Several states banned married women from holding government jobs. Though the percentage of married women teachers doubled, the majority of school boards refused to hire them. Many people were worried about what it would mean to have wives work outside the home. What concerned them most was what it would mean to have white married women working outside the home.

Black women had long been forced by economic necessity to work for wages, and among agricultural worker families, 60 percent of Chicanas with children worked in the fields. Japanese immigrant women had been partners in their husbands’ businesses, domestic servants in other people’s homes, and agricultural laborers ever since their arrival in large numbers between 1907 and 1921. Married Puerto Rican women in New York City contracted with textile manufacturers to make garments, fine lace, and other goods in their homes. The press and policymakers had never worried about what those women’s work would do to their families. It was only when non-Hispanic, white native-born or even immigrant married women began to work outside the home in larger numbers that the issue became a public one.

…At the turn of century, young working women had most often lived at home or as boarders with other families. Now, between school and marriage they lived in their own apartments. They often shared these apartments with other young working women. Having their own apartments gave them a sense of autonomy, of young adulthood, of being unsupervised and unrestrained. It gave their parents a lot of worry. At the same time, young working women hardly lived in the lap of luxury. At $15 a week, their wages supported only tiny, often ill-lit apartments with sparse furnishings. For women doing dull work and living in ding, dark apartments on boring, cheap food, the phone company’s lounge and benefits gave them as close a glimpse as they might ever have of the middle-class life many wanted.

Whenever they sought more from life, to take in the new movies or go to amusement parks, or have a decent dinner, they had to find a man, who was better paid, to treat them. Young working women had started dating men to whom they had not been introduced, without supervision, almost a generation earlier. By the 1920s, this practice was widespread. Lounges, theater tickets, and lunches formed part of the new strategies by which large corporations had responded to the massive number of strikes in 1919. Many adopted something called the American Plan of corporate welfare. Instead of paying higher wages, companies provided increased benefits to workers.

…Although clerical workers and businesswomen were newly conspicuous among women workers in the 1920s, most women workers remained in the occupations that they had in previous decades: domestic service, agricultural labor, and certain manufacturing jobs. For a small subset of the middle and upper classes, work could be seen as inherently satisfying and liberating. For most working women, however, wage labor was a matter of necessity. In the 1920s, despite its reputation as an era of prosperity, 71 percent of U.S. workers earned less than the wage required to support what the government defined as the minimum acceptable standard of living for their families. As a result, in low-income families, 25 percent of all married women worked for wages.

In 1920, five times more married black women than women of any other racial or ethnic group worked outside the home. More than 50 percent of adult black women earned wages. In rural areas most performed back-breaking labor in the fields. In the cities most performed domestic service or laundering. Only 5.5 percent were able to gain employment in manufacturing, a better-paid sector, by 1930. As the total number of servants declined, black women became a larger and larger share of those remaining.”

- Sarah Jane Deutsch, “Women’s Work.” in From Ballots to Breadlines: American Women, 1920-1940

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Yew Tree Farm, Cumbria, England, Yew Tree, built in 1690, was owned by Beatrix Potter in the 1930s and is still home to many of her furnishings.

[ramadoodles]

Arts and Crafts Movement

This is a movement with such gorgeous works of art! Although it's not very well-known, we all know proponents of this movement, such as the famous printmaker William Morris.

The Arts and Crafts Movement was a trend in decorative and fine arts, which originated in the British Isles and spread to Europe, North America and even as far as Japan.

It was inspired by the ideas of historian Thomas Carlyle, art critic John Ruskin, and designer/printmaker William Morris.

This movement was a reaction to the plain and mass-produced items of the industrial revolution. Instead, the proponents of this movement focused on traditional design and strove for Gothic architecture that represented Christian values of the Middle Ages.

Principles of the Arts and Crafts Movement-

The Arts and Crafts Movement believed that design should be useful as well as beautiful. The proponents disliked ornate designs which served no purpose, as seen on industrially-produced items of the time. They believed that thought should be put into decoration, such that it should enrich the essential construction.

As William Morris said, “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.“

Here's some art created by people of this movement- William Morris (he made primarily wallpaper and home furnishings)

his daughter May Morris (took charge of her father's business, also did embroidery)

John Ruskin (mainly a painter)

Edwin Lutyens (yes, that Lutyens)(We all know he's an architect. Delhi people wya)

ok, I'm kidding, here's an Arts and Crafts-style house made by Lutyens

Seriously though, I have no idea how this is an Arts and Crafts-style house. Architecture looks all the same to me.

What happened to the movement?

By 1910s, the movement had grown popular and the Arts and Crafts style had permeated all typed of arts and home goods. Handmade items in the style were especially in vogue. This caused many handmade artifacts of middling quality to be produced and sold, which caused handmade items to be seen as inferior to machine-made items, which were increasing in quality by the day.

Ultimately, by 1914 the Arts and Crafts Movement was running out of funds and steam, and eventually it stopped the commercialization of its goods in favour of purist handwork. Eventually it was replaced as a prevailing trend by Modernism in the 1930s.

Enduring Influences of the Movement

In 1920s Japan, Yanagi Soetsu became influenced by the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement. He went on to create the Mingei movement. While its principles are similar to the Arts and Crafts Movement, to discuss it would require a post of its own.

The influences of the Arts and Crafts Movement can be seen in 1940's British craft work, such as in Utility Furniture of the 1940s. This was partially due to the ideas brought over by Bernard Leach from Japan, where the movement had been thriving.

[living400lbs]

Radio aimed at homemakers:

Although broadcast radio was barely a decade old, its signals already covered a broad swath of rural America. Broadcasters soon discovered that they had a captive audience in the multitudes of farm women who were occupied with daily chores at home while their husbands worked in the fields. Big food manufacturers began to sponsor homemaking shows, usually heavy on recipes and running in the morning hours (the precursor to daytime television).

The fictional character of Betty Crocker was invented by one of the flour companies that later became part of General Mills. In 1924, “Betty Crocker” debuted as the narrator of a radio cooking school show, running twice a week at 10:30 a.m.; by 1930 it was heard over forty-three stations nationwide.

Not to be outdone, in 1926 the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s farm radio service debuted a five-day-a-week show called Housekeepers’ Chat hosted by “Aunt Sammy” (presumably some sort of consort to Uncle Sam). On the show, Aunt Sammy sat at the center of a large, somewhat inept family who regularly came to her with questions on everything from how to prepare a Thanksgiving pie to why children needed sunbaths. In reality, she was a folksy vehicle for the USDA’s Bureau of Home Economics to disseminate its expert advice on “nutrition, meal-planning, cooking, clothing, health, house furnishing, gardening, and other kindred subjects.”

From A Square Meal by Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe

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Living the Hollywood Dream: Art Deco Elegance in Interiors

Maybe art deco style might work well for your house design if you fantasize about the glamorous Hollywood lifestyle of the 1920s and 1930s. But how does art deco decorating get its look? This dramatic, opulent vintage best home interior designer in Bhubaneswar can be achieved by recognizing design aspects and themes and applying them into the materials, furnishings, and decorating. The exotic…

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The so-called „Landi Bank“, a bench made of tubular steel and wooden seating, is a common sight in Swiss parks and public spaces. But its designer is very much unknown: Alfred Altherr junior (1911-72) was only 28 when he designed the bench for the Swiss National Exhibition, commonly referred to as „Landi“, in 1939. Altherr’s relative is all the more puzzling as he occupied quite exposed positions, among them that of executive director of the Schweizer Werkbund, in which he influenced the contemporary discourse surrounding domestic culture in Switzerland. In 1956 he actually set up a „Wohnberatungsstelle“, a neutral consulting office for all questions related to furnishing your home, in Winterthur and also hosted courses in which he reported on modern design. As son of Alfred Johann Altherr, architect and long-term head of Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich, he was born into an environment receptive to progressive ideas in architecture and design. Encouraged by his father Altherr soon decided to become an architect and beginning in 1930 apprenticed in the offices of Le Corbusier, Karl Moser and Alfred Roth only to open his own office in 1934. In the following decades until his untimely death in 1972 Altherr built a considerable number of houses and schools, designed furniture and also developed a prefab house program. This diverse oeuvre is comprehensively presented in the monograph „Alfred Altherr junior - Protagonist der Schweizer Wohnkultur“, published in 2013 by Niggli and edited by Design + Design: the publication is based on Joan Billing’s and Samuel Eberli’s development of Altherr’s archive and contains a biographical sketch as well as essays discussing his numerous activities within the Swiss architecture and designs scene. But most importantly it features Altherr’s most significant design and buildings and documents them in photos, plans and concise texts. The result is a highly readable portrait of a long forgotten but indeed very interesting protagonist of Swiss design and architecture before and after WWII.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

This cute blue 1930 home with 1bd, 1ba, is a little pricey b/c it's a beach cottage on Tybee Island, GA. But, it's such a happy little house, I couldn't resist. Asking $550K. It's the smallest house on the island, so it's thought that it may have been a guard house, originally. It can also be a year round home.

Isn't this the cutest living room? It's just so cozy.

It doesn't say in the listing, but usually a vacation cottage is sold furnished. Since they took a closeup of this lovely bicycle pic, it suggests that it does come furnished.

Plus, there are closeups of various furniture pieces, too.

Pretty big galley kitchen and it also has a laundry area tucked in by the back door. I'm not seeing a dishwasher, though. I hate that.

The shower room is cute.

Very nice.

Sweet bedroom.

It's in the back of the house, off the kitchen. Check out the fridge right outside the door.

Nice large deck.

According to the description, the house can be expanded.

Hot tub down in the yard.

The deck has 2 stair cases and there's also a nice shed.

This is very nice. Love wicker.

The lot is pretty big. 4,739 sq ft.

The wicker set is on a small patio in front of the house and the firepit is off to the side.

Adorable picket fence with an arbor over the gate. Such an idyllic property. The sign has its name, "Sunburst Cottage."

There is definitely room to expand it.

It's about 4 blocks from the Atlantic Ocean.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1514-2nd-Ave-Tybee-Island-GA-31328/14193587_zpid/

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July 7 2022 Asheville NC and Denver CO

We visited The Biltmore Estate this morning, which is a major tourist attraction and resort in Asheville.  According to Wikipedia 

“Biltmore House (or Biltmore Mansion), the main residence, is a Châteauesque-style mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 and is the largest privately owned house in the United States.  Still owned by George Vanderbilt's descendants, it remains one of the most prominent examples of Gilded Age mansions.

In the 1880s... George Washington Vanderbilt II began to make regular visits with his mother, Maria Louisa Kissam Vanderbilt, to the Asheville area. He loved the scenery and climate so much that he decided to build a summer house in the area, which he called his "little mountain escape". His older brothers and sisters had built luxurious summer houses in places such as Newport, Rhode Island, the Gold Coast of Long Island, and Hyde Park, New York.

Vanderbilt named his estate Biltmore, combining De Bilt (his ancestors' place of origin in the Netherlands) with more (mōr, Anglo-Saxon for "moor", an open, rolling land).  Vanderbilt bought nearly 700 parcels of land, including over 50 farms and at least five cemeteries; a portion of the estate was once the community of Shiloh.  A spokesperson for the estate said in 2017 that archives show much of the land "was in very poor condition, and many of the farmers and other landowners were glad to sell.”

Construction of the house began in 1889. In order to facilitate such a large project, a woodworking factory and brick kiln, which produced 32,000 bricks a day, were built onsite. A three-mile railroad spur was constructed to bring materials to the building site. Construction on the main house required the labor of about 1,000 workers and 60 stonemasons. Vanderbilt made extensive trips overseas during construction to purchase decor. He returned to North Carolina with thousands of furnishings for his newly built home, including tapestries, hundreds of carpets, prints, linens, and decorative objects, dating from the 15th century to the late 19th century. Among the few American-made items were the more practical oak drop-front desk, rocking chairs, a walnut grand piano, bronze candlesticks, and a wicker wastebasket.

George Vanderbilt opened his opulent estate on Christmas Eve of 1895 to family and friends from across the country, who were encouraged to enjoy leisure and country pursuits. The Gilded Age mansion reportedly cost $5 million (today's equivalent of $180 million) to construct. Guests to the estate over the years included novelists Edith Wharton and Henry James, ambassadors Joseph Hodges Choate and Larz Anderson, and U.S. presidents. George married Edith Stuyvesant Dresser in 1898 in Paris, France. Their only child, Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt, was born at Biltmore in the Louis XV room in 1900, and grew up at the estate

Stressed by Congressional passage of income tax and the expensive maintenance of the estate, Vanderbilt initiated the sale of 87,000 acres to the federal government. After Vanderbilt's unexpected death in 1914 of complications from an emergency appendectomy, his widow completed the sale. She carried out her late husband's wish that the land remain pristine, and that property became the nucleus of the Pisgah National Forest.  Overwhelmed with running the large estate, Edith began consolidating her interests, selling Biltmore Estate Industries in 1917 and Biltmore Village in 1921. She intermittently occupied the house, living in an apartment created in the former Bachelors' Wing, until the marriage of her daughter Cornelia to John Francis Amherst Cecil in April 1924. The Cecils had two sons, who were born at Biltmore in the same room where their mother was born.

In an attempt to bolster the estate's finances during the Great Depression, Cornelia and her husband opened Biltmore to the public in March 1930 at the request of the City of Asheville, which hoped to revitalize the area with tou rism. Biltmore closed during World War II. In 1942, 62 paintings and 17 sculptures were moved to the estate by train from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. to protect them in the event of an attack on the United States. The Music Room on the first floor was never finished, so it was used for storage until 1944, when the possibility of an attack became more remote. 

After the Cecils divorced in 1934, Cornelia left the estate never to return, but John Cecil maintained his residence in the Bachelors' Wing until his death in 1954. Their eldest son, George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil, occupied rooms in the wing until 1956. At that point Biltmore House ceased to be a family residence and was operated as a historic house museum.

Their younger son William A. V. Cecil, Sr. returned to the estate in the late 1950s and partnered with his brother to manage the estate's financial trouble. They worked to create the profitable and self-sustaining enterprise that their grandfather had envisioned. William Cecil inherited the estate upon the death of their mother, Cornelia, in 1976. His brother George Cecil inherited the more profitable dairy farm, which was spun off as Biltmore Farms.”

Down in the basement one of the most interesting things about the house museum was this display about the building of the mansion.

Some of the artwork on the walls, which was done by guests during a party, was amazing!

As a gardener, my favorite parts of the estate were the gardens and the greenhouse.

So, the question just begs to be asked.  What made the Vanderbilt family so exceedingly RICH?  Cornelius Vanderbilt came from a middle class family.  His father was a farmer but also started a shipping business.  Cornelius borrowed money from his father to start his first ventures in trading and ferrying, especially military troops and supplies.  From that success he build an empire in the railroad industry.  But was he TRULY a “self-made man” as so many industrialists were claimed to be?  Looking it the history during those years there were many other factors working in their favor. 

 According to the Grunge history website:

“After all, this was the Industrial Revolution; it wasn't really kind to the everyday worker. Low wages and horrific working conditions were just part of the era (via Legends of America). And that was true of the railroads, too; according to The Atlantic, the normal wage for a man working on the railroad was a pitiful 75 cents a day. That's next to nothing, especially compared to the millions in the pocket of the Vanderbilt family. It also feels like it lines up with something that Vanderbilt's son, William Henry Vanderbilt, said to the press: "The public be damned." They only really cared about their stockholders and investments,

Basically, the government wasn't really on the side of the working class; they definitely sided with corporations. As History explains, the government worked to keep foreign competition out of the picture, giving industrialists the chance to create monopolies while facing few consequences. (Honestly, maybe that's also because plenty of politicians were easily bribed, gladly helping out their friends with deepest pockets, making sure legislation favored big business over the everyday worker).

And even where rampant corruption wasn't involved, there was ignorance. Encyclopedia.com says that Cornelius Vanderbilt wasn't above manipulating the stock market as he saw fit, he and other business owners selling stocks at inflated and unwarranted prices, simply because the government regulation wasn't there to tell them to stop.”

And they also paid LITTLE TO NO TAXES!  Unfortunately, it sounds like not a lot has changed since the “Gilded Age”.  Yes, there are some regulations and controls on industry and corporations, but most of them aren’t strong enough to prevent monopolies and mistreatment of employees.  Just look at Amazon, Google and Meta (formerly Facebook).  And they are the biggest, but there are MANY other multi-national corporations monopolizing industries and union-busting so that they can maximize their profits.  That’s unbridled CAPITALISM for you, combined with political corruption, patriarchy, and GREED. The world has been plagued by this for centuries, if not millenia.  If you don’t believe me, read “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari.  It doesn’t have to be this way and many believe that a complete overhaul of the political and economic systems worldwide, as well as advancing feminism, would go a long way towards creating a truly egalitarian society.  I’m among those people. 

Bruce and I left North Carolina this afternoon to finish our vacation in Denver.  We realized that if we contracted COVID we would be stuck at the Omni with NO ROOM SERVICE and no ability to leave to get food.  Don’t ask me why that never occurred to us but seeing all those people not wearing masks was a wake up call and we hightailed it back to Colorado, where we checked into the Four Seasons Hotel, which has room service and is close enough to drive home at a moment’s notice.

[kaashni-co-in]

Hollywood Regency interior design: glamorous and bold

Hollywood Regency interior design is a style that harkens back to the glamour of old Hollywood. It's all about luxury, drama, and boldness, with a touch of whimsy. Think plush velvet sofas, ornate chandeliers, and mirrored accents.

This style first gained popularity in the 1930s and 1940s, when Hollywood's elite were looking for a way to bring the glamour of the silver screen into their homes. It has since experienced a resurgence in popularity in recent years, with designers and homeowners alike drawn to its bold and theatrical aesthetic.

One of the key features of Hollywood Regency design is the use of bold, contrasting colors. Black and white is a classic color combination, but other bold pairings like navy and gold or hot pink and turquoise are also popular. The goal is to create a high-contrast, high-impact look that makes a statement.

In terms of furnishings, Hollywood Regency interiors feature a mix of vintage and modern pieces, often with a touch of Art Deco style. Lacquered finishes and metallic accents are common, as are bold patterns like animal prints or geometric shapes.

Lighting is also an important aspect of Hollywood Regency design, with chandeliers and sconces featuring crystal, glass, and shiny metals. Art deco and geometric patterns are often incorporated into lighting fixtures, as well as other decorative elements throughout the space.

Accessories play a key role in Hollywood Regency design, with an emphasis on statement pieces like oversized mirrors, crystal chandeliers, and elaborate sculptures. Animal prints and exotic textures like zebra hide and ostrich feathers are also popular accents.

Mirrors are another hallmark of Hollywood Regency design. Large, ornate mirrors can be used to create a sense of space and glamour, while smaller mirrors can be used to add a touch of sparkle and drama.

Overall, Hollywood Regency interior design is not for the faint of heart. It's a style that demands attention and makes a bold statement, but for those who love glamour and drama, it can be the perfect way to infuse a space with a touch of old Hollywood glamour.

In conclusion, Hollywood Regency interior design is a style that exudes luxury, glamour, and boldness. It embraces high contrast, metallic accents, luxurious fabrics, and a mix of vintage and modern pieces. This style is perfect for those who want to create a sophisticated and dramatic living space that is both comfortable and visually stunning. It allows homeowners to infuse their personality into their home decor and create a space that is truly unique. With Hollywood Regency, you can transform any room into a grand and opulent space that will leave a lasting impression on all who enter.

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A fun little whimsical tag ✨

Thanks to @onlineproblems for tagging me. 

favorite movie? Everything Will be Okay

favorite book? The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

favorite character? Sarah Lynn from Bojack Horseman. I love her so much one of my kitties is name after her. 

favorite song? How do people actually have favorite songs. Theres literally  a millennia if not more of music. Anyway probably “Ghost Love Score” by Nightwish or “.Goëtia” by Peter Gundry. 

favorite color? Royal Blue. Because I am royalty.

favorite animal? Octopus

favorite scent? Lavender and Bergamot 

favorite place? Any place filled with everlasting joy. A beach with happy friends, a town square, a living room filled with warmth and laughter. 

favorite food? Pho is literally my comfort food. 

favorite item of clothing? Big, obnoxious, artisan crafted hats usually modeled off of styles from the 1870s-1930s. 

if you had the chance to make out with (or hug) anyone of your choosing, real or fictional, living or dead, who would it be? Harvey Guillen, Marilyn Monroe, Mae West, Vampira, and like a list of old film stars. 

beach or forest? Beach

pastel or jewel tones? Jewel Tones

spring or autumn? Autumn. Halloween! Fun colored leaves! Pumpkins! Pumpkin spice! Fall spices! Chilly wind! Sweaters! Smores! And also fall colors look spectacular on me. 

sci fi or fantasy? I like historical fiction with light fantasy touches so fantasy. 

Ocean depths or outer space? Ocean. I like adventure stories. 

if you were free of societal burdens like money, what would you choose to do? Become an eccentric artist with elegant gowns and finely crafted suits. A home with lavish furnishings like a gorgeous dining room and a ridiculously crafted bed probably done in the baroque style. I’d have wonderful dinner parties with delicious food, mouth watering libations, and possibly even live theatre or poetry readings. All of this is funded by a wealthy patron who allows me to do whatever weird art I want.

tagging @thelittlemermage, @memosminifridge, and @beansprean and anyone else who wants to do it!

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Brick c.1930 Furnished Affordable Tennessee Home Under $140K

$139,900 A brick, two-bedroom, two-bathroom affordable Tennessee home with 1, 556sqft. It comes fully furnished. With two kitchens, two HVAC units, two water heaters, it has the potential to be a two-family home.  Also has a scenic, private backyard, but the interior is the real Wow factor with hardwood floors, fireplace, built-ins and vintage steel kitchen cabinetry. Realtor Comments An…