Wharton Esherick and the Armstrong Linoleum Company

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25 points by thomasjb 10 days ago


dfxm12 - 9 days ago

If you're in the Philadelphia area, I highly suggest checking out the Wharton Esherick museum. The PMA has an impressive Esherick fireplace [0], too (among a lot of other impressive art!). If you're interested in beautiful, hand crafted furnishings, you can also hit up the Nakashima workshop and Bertoia studio as well.

Anyway, the story about the woman looking for the stool in the ad reminds me of a similar issue my mom had with an ad. She was given an ad for Wayfair featuring a particular end table. She clicked on it expecting to go right to the product page for that end table. However, it just went straight to the home page and after both of looked, that end table appeared to simply not be for sale by Wayfair. They lost a customer that day.

I'm also frustrated when a rug or lighting company sends me an ad where they have all this beautiful furniture in the ad (that they don't sell) and, after clicking through, I realize their products were what seemed like the set dressing of the ad. I guess I get that if your products aren't good enough, put them next to something nice in an ad, but it doesn't put me in the mood to buy anything.

0 - https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/84555

jihadjihad - 9 days ago

From the "Armstrong spread in Ladies Home Journal" copy in TFA:

> Below the hefty, vinyl wear surface is a foamed vinyl backing called Cushioncord. Because this backing "gives" under pressure, Cushioned Coronelle is quieter, warmer, and more comfortable to walk on.

The description and the photo instantly took me back to my grandmother's kitchen, that little bit of squish as you head to the fridge.

ofalkaed - 9 days ago

The staircase in his studio is impressive[0], completely changed how I looked at wood and wood working. Love that little chair under it, for years I have tried to design a chair based on its basic structure but have never managed to come up with anything I am happy with. He played with that structure a fair amount but the others always looked off to me.

[0]https://whartonesherickmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04...