which are appropriate for their era. The room is simply overdone, like the decorator had to show everything in her arsenal.

I love that Dave felt the need to watermark this image, as if anyone were going to steal it!

[That is, as any webmaster would tell you, not the reason. It's there to publicize the site when the picture gets posted elsewhere. - Dave]

The Peacock on top of the cabinet or radio is most defiantly a lamp. The one in the picture is very similar to the one below and I bet the colors were also very similar.

[You gotta watch out for those defiant peacocks. - Dave]

Where are you? This looks straight out of Beekman Place and "Auntie Mame." I want the peacock lamp!

I am dying to straighten those couch cushions. On the other hand, as long as I'm distracted by that, the rest of it doesn't hurt so much.

Washington Post, Sep 7, 1924; Advertisement

That sisal rug is right in fashion these days. I didn't know they were even a "thing" back then.

Regardless of period style issues, this is just plain wrong.

At least these are cloth. My grandmother, modern gal as she was, used fitted plastic. I'm talking the fifties and early sixties. Knitted comforters and doilies were placed over the plastic and thus we had our everyday furniture, good for family and friends. When we had company, non family formal gatherings or extra special do's, off came the plastic. It actually made a lot of sense. Cheaper to replace slipcovers than the couches and chairs themselves. It was after all the era of permanent furniture, built to last generations.

Isn't it our duty to judge the past by today's standards? That's the reason I openly mock the kids these days wearing bell bottoms!

That's it! This room is the bellbottoms of home decor! On the plus side, at least its pants aren't falling down all the time.
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I have never been so glad to see a picture in black and white!

Imagine this picture in colour? Oh the humanity!

(Maybe we can all colourize it with what we think it's supposed to look like and post on shorpy's facebook group?)

Intriguing lamp on the right-hand wall. Pull the cord and raise the shade.

Except for the hideous slipcovers, the other accouterments in the room are very high quality and rare equipage, each of which would bring in some big bucks today. The lamp alone would be several thousand simoleons, as would the ornate chest it sits on. We can't all like the same things you know, as the world would be very dull if we all had identical trappings in our homes. Personally I find the worst eyesore is the slipcovers, but I hate slipcovers anyway. We all know Oscar Wilde's last words as he lay on his deathbed: "One of us has to go, either me or that wallpaper."

We walked by this building just a couple weeks ago on our way to the zoo. I remember thinking that it was charming, if a little run-down. It surprises me a little that a place in that part of town does not have central air, for example.

>> This room has all the subtle charm of a circus tent crossed with a whorehouse.

Boy that made me laugh...

I collect homemaking magazines from the 1920s and 30s, and this would make the decorating editors swoon with horror. Somebody needs to hire a new stager.

I've never seen slipcovers that make the furniture look like luggage.

This makes sense if you imagine Rudolph Valentino lounging with a cigarette.

It's amazing what time will do... We can't judge that decor by today's standards. It was probably right in fashion then...

I wonder if any of this survived in the remodeled Catheedral Mansions.

It's eclectic! And electric. So the dark bulbs are what. Amber? Red? This room has all the subtle charm of a circus tent crossed with a whorehouse.

Not only Slipcover Hell. Fringed and Tasseled Lampshade Hell. Eternal Sconce Damnation. And of course Tchotchke Heaven!

My first impression was this was a heretofore suppressed photo from the 1923 opening of King Tut's tomb.

I also want to believe that the object on the left previously described as a "peacock lamp" is in reality a decorative titanafram for a radio set concealed in the cabinet below.

Good grief. Some cool items individually, but way too much of a good thing, 10 minutes in this room would give me a migraine. And ditto torgo's comment, that doll is nightmare material.

I feel dizzy! Very Alice in Wonderland.

Wow. It's all very Mediterranean Revival, Hollywood Boulevard, 1920s movie queen. You expect Nora Desmond to totter out from an alcove any second.

I'd like everything in this apartment, thank you. Even the semi-creepy boudoir doll and the thing that looks like a garish, anorexic leg lamp on the left. Of course, I plan to spread all this finery throughout my entire house, because it's making me queasy in its present cramped location.

OMG, I would defiantly ask for a refund from that home decorator. This from a guy who still wears tie-dye.

Was life really that gaudy back in 1924? Granted, the peacock lamp to the left might have been cool, but that doll on the couch creeps me out.

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