Looking Back
Walk into almost any antiques shop and you're
sure to find a section devoted just to them: furnishings, fabrics, and
accessories from the 1940s and '50s. Window treatments are no exception. Baby boomers will remember some of these
oddities first-hand -- the bright colors, chromes, and plastics that represented
modernity, as it was known then.
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In a creative stroke of adaptive reuse, a
1940s tablecloth fabric brings high-spirited
nostalgia to the window as
a cafe curtain and matching valance. |
But what was once a new design style has now
become a vintage classic, not quite old enough yet to be strictly defined as
antique. Brought into the home, these flavors of the not-so-distant past
produce one of the hottest looks in design. Blending with today's kitchen
appliances and architecture, they are infectious, spreading their good mood.
Whether captured in spirit only, as a hand-painted valance that recalls the
epoch's designs and palette, or in actual vintage fabrics reenlisted in a new
role as window dressings, the retro looks at the window appear anything but
old.
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