A little shop in Petaluma, a shrunken man with an otherworldly accent; a single bed in blonde wood; looks like it was made for little red riding hood to sleep in (if little red riding hood was played by Clara Bow). Did this man, when he was young and had fangs, eat her eighty years ago, steal her bed, and only now feels safe to sell of the evidence?
Who cares? We were looking for a small bed for our guest room. This bed was simple, clean and modern; priced well, and turns out to have been made by Haywood Wakefield….
Somehow the new bed demanded new curtains for the room. We had plain white sheers, but we knew we could make our own, so we took a trip down to Stone Mt. fabric store in Berkeley and found this great fabric that looks decorative and abstract, but vaguely reminded me of the streamlined machine forms of Moderne (if you stare, you think you see social realist steel eagles and parts of trains)….
The overall effect is quite nice and, between the chance finds of the 30’s bed and Moderne fabric, creates an unintentional but pleasing hint of Deco…
And I just heard that little red riding hood will be coming to visit over the Xmas break (you know who you are!)
