Category Archives: Favorite Vintage Ads

Favorite Vintage Ads Friday: Quadrille

Posted November 14, 2014. Filed in Favorite Vintage Ads

Quadrille’s ad campaigns from the 1980’s were some of the best in the world of interiors. Their products were, and remain, in such demand that they didn’t have to announce to the consumer “We sell fabrics and wallcoverings, in case you didn’t know”. Their popular rep patterns covered walls, upholstered furniture,  covered chairs and ottomans, […]

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Favorite Vintage Ads Friday: Perry Ellis for Martex, 1984

Posted October 10, 2014. Filed in Favorite Vintage Ads

Today’s Favorite Vintage Ad features a line of bedding designed by the late clothing designer Perry Ellis for Martex in 1984. His inspiration for this line was Africa, for which he created three distinct patterns based on animals found in the bush: the tiger, zebra and jaguar.  The first pattern features “Night Tiger” on a […]

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Favorite Vintage Ads Friday: Atelier Martex 1983

Posted September 19, 2014. Filed in Favorite Vintage Ads

If you have been following my recent installment, Favorite Vintage Ads Friday, you will know how taken I was, and remain, with regard to the Atelier Martex ad campaigns of the 1980’s. Often employing well-known designers to conjure seductive atmospheres for a waiting clientele, each setting evokes a particular mood and place in time. The […]

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Favorite Vintage Ads Friday: Collier Campbell for Martex

Posted August 29, 2014. Filed in Favorite Vintage Ads, John Saladino

Today’s favorite vintage ad was produced in 1983 by Atelier Martex in collaboration with Collier Campbell to introduce their new bedding line, Kashmir. Martex employed interior designers and decorators, with never a mention of their names, to create imagined rooms layered with atmosphere to entice buyers into their secret world. They are some of the best […]

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Favorite Vintage Ads Friday: Patterson, Flynn & Martin

Posted August 22, 2014. Filed in Favorite Vintage Ads

Today’s Favorite Friday Vintage Ad features this eclectic and richly appointed room with a resist-dyed canvas floor cloth by Maya for Patterson, Flynn & Martin, shown in “China Gardens with Ribbons”, which was published in Architectural Digest in 1977. Like many of my favorite ads from that era, curated rooms settings like this one are […]

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Favorite Vintage Ads Friday: McGuire Furniture Stinson Beach

Posted August 15, 2014. Filed in Favorite Vintage Ads, McGuire

Our week’s vacation in Stinson Beach is coming to an end, and I couldn’t think of a more appropriate ad campaign than this McGuire Furniture advertisement set at Elinor and John McGuire’s Stinson Beach retreat in 1992 – four years after the completion of their Joseph Esherick built cedar clad pavilion with interiors by Andrew […]

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Favorite Vintage Ads Friday: Perry Ellis for Martex

Posted August 1, 2014. Filed in Favorite Vintage Ads

It seems like I just wrote last week’s Favorite Friday Vintage Ads and here it is Friday, again – how fast this week has flown by! But I’m not complaining, as Friday’s are most welcomed and better still, I’m off to my native home, northern California, to spend a week with my family at our […]

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Favorite Vintage Ads Friday: Atelier Martex

Posted July 25, 2014. Filed in Favorite Vintage Ads

Ranking high among my favorite “vintage” ads from the 1980’s are the ad campaigns produced by Atelier Martex. This one features the introduction of a new bedding line named “Simply Violets” released in 1983. If I knew who directed the design of these room settings I would certainly hail their talents. They excelled at creating […]

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Favorite Vintage Ad Friday: McGuire Furniture

Posted June 13, 2014. Filed in Favorite Vintage Ads, McGuire

Today’s “Favorite Vintage Ad Friday” features an advertisement by McGuire furniture printed in 1977. For many years McGuire advertised in House & Garden and Architectural Digest magazines on a monthly basis, setting the standard for high-quality, elegantly curated settings, and often photographed in the McGuire’s own residences and the homes of interior designers and their […]

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Favorite Vintage Ads Friday: Rose Cumming

Posted June 6, 2014. Filed in Favorite Vintage Ads

I’ve been trying to come up with something that would make it easier for me to post more frequently, especially on Friday when I’m usually out the door and hopefully off to a relaxing respite somewhere. The answer came when I was thumbing through old House and Garden magazines from the 80’s and rediscovered ads […]

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