Tag Archive 'Kentile'

Retro flooring: Anita finds a stash of vintage aqua tile…but what about the asbestos?

50sPam on Jul 23 2008 | Filed under: flooring

Anita has been sucked right into the retro renovation vortex — to our benefit (evil laugh!) — and writes:

Hi Pam - I’m visiting my daughter for the week. Today while she was at work I went to a few antiques stores looking for nothing in particular. I stumbled across an entire unused case of vintage [...]

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Retro flooring — great reference samples

50sPam on Apr 14 2008 | Filed under: flooring

These 50s Kentile flooring samples were recently on ebay. I bid on them all, but won just one set. Alas, I have been trying to cut back on building the “Museum of Pittsfield” collection, as my oh-so-patient husband calls it. I’ll tell you, I already have quite an exhibit ready to send cross-country!
Aren’t these incredible? [...]

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