Home Decorator's Idea Book, Portfolio No. One, See Your Room Before You Start.
Armstrong Cork Company, Floor Division, Lancaster, PA., 1931. 11.75x9", 36pp, illustrated throughout with color and bw images, and printed on a heavier, semi-glossy paper. Bound in nicely decorated Art Deco wrappers. Provenance: Library of Congress, though the only evidence of that is the LC surplus/duplicate stamp on the rear of the front cover. Very Good copy. $100
- This is one of seven portfolios published by Armstrong to help folks decorate their homes, hopefully using some sort of Armstrong product (floor, ceiling tiles, walls). Evidently the series is uncommon.
I've referred a number of times in quick posts to this about the rooms that Bogart would've walked through in some of his movies, and how they might change quite a bit if they weren't filmed in fabulous black & white. This Armstrong catalog gives a little bit of an idea of what those rooms may have looked liked--here for example if a color image of a decorating idea in color and with most of the color sucked out of it:
Anyway, Bogart would still be Bogart whether he was in a room on the left or on the right--the man made his own color, or lack of it.
And some very highly colorful flooring:
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