February 18, 2015

A Quaint Canopy Bed in New York City

Van Cortlandt Motel
New York City, New York
Mailed in 1962

Take a wild guess where this bedroom was situated in. Some quaint bed and breakfast inn in New England, perhaps? Nope, right smack in New York City, on Broadway.  It could have passed for a museum room, if it wasn't for the vintage television, barkcloth curtains and coral orange vinyl cushions. Though I can't find proof of this, I seem to recall that coral and beige were a popular color scheme in interior design in 1960's. For example, IHOP restaurants had this color scheme back then, in these days when the restaurants were in these then-ubiquitous A-frame buildings.

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