Plaster wall repair charlie chaplin1/17/2024 Venetian blinds had already been around for a few hundred years and no one ever paid them much heed, but they went from zero to sixty in 1934, when director Mark Sandrich used them in the "The Gay Divorcee". You've managed to assemble all the best features, including one you show but didn't comment on: the sleek white metal Venetian blinds. Not long ago I was talking to someone-online, of course, since I have not a single real-life friend who cares a whit about such stuff-about the cool kitchen and I couldn't find a single decent shot of what I was looking for. The hostess had to explain who she was, and it was another ten years before I finally saw My Man Godfrey (during which time Patrick died), but even if I hadn't loved the humor & great sets & beautiful opening credits, I would have enjoyed the movie for Patrick's preformance. The night that she & her new husband-a local businessman-appeared in my station at Peoria's only 3-star restaurant, I had no idea who she was, but it was clear she was Somebody. My Man Godfrey is one of my favorite movies and the sets are a big part of it, although another factor was that I got to know Gail Patrick back when I was working my way through college as a waiter, and she was the most glamorous woman in Peoria, Illinois. (All images from My Man Godfrey, Universal Pictures) This diamond and circular trellis is quintessential Hollywood. I think that something like this needs to be put back into production, although I know that the pat answer would be that it costs too much. It might be a little difficult to see, but take a look at that register (or is it a radiator cover?) underneath the window. Robsjohn-Gibbings.Ĭalla lilies were huge during this decade this arrangement has me rethinking them. It's so.theatrical.Ī white klismos chair in the spirit of T.H. This baroque fantasy had that large circular mirror complete with that plaster figure on a bracket. I think I see fish.įireplaces were always ripe for high drama. Note the frosted glass shower door it looks like it has an underwater theme to it. Something else that fascinates me are 1930s bathrooms. I think this beats your average paneled door any day. Plaster reliefs were also popular- like this one that adorned a door. Here is a better shot of that modernist handrail that was in the kitchen.ġ930s sets were filled with decorative oddities like painted motifs that were stuck everywhere.on doors, screens, walls. How many kitchens have you seen with such glitz? I'm taken with that chrome trim on the walls.Ī kitchen like this would not be complete with a charming butler, plenty of silver serving pieces, and a battalion of cocktail glasses. My favorite era of kitchen design is the 1930s. Because you know, I just can't give up the drama.ĭo you think this would be ridiculous to wear for lounging and sleeping? Who knows, I might even graduate to marabou bed jackets soon à la Carole Lombard. And more importantly, it would be a most proper venue in which to wear my satin bed jackets, something which recently amused a friend who was touring my house. Sure people might think I had lost control of my mental faculties, but it would be fun. If I had the space, I would seriously consider decorating a few rooms in the spirit of my favorite 1930s movies. I mean, on the one hand, it's a little tacky, but it's also charming in an exuberant and hopeful kind of way. I think it's this pastiche that captivates me. There's drama in scale, color, and in the case of films from the 1930s and 40s, in quirky decorative details too. We all know that on movie sets, everything has to be bigger and larger than life in order to register on film. One of my favorite sets is that of My Man Godfrey, a 1936 screwball comedy starring William Powell and Carole Lombard. Perhaps this explains my fascination with set decoration, especially that from the 1930s. So, I guess that I decided to pursue drama in other areas of my life, and what I found is that drama in interiors has fewer consequences and produces fewer headaches than drama in other areas of one's life. While I wasn't bad, I also wasn't going to win any awards either. Who me? A flair for the dramatic? Well, perhaps a little.
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