Post #262863 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Oct 26, 2006 9:20 AM

Yeah, I love that menu cover (and the mask on the back), the rendering style is so "artistic". Hey, and I saw that lamp somewhere before :).

Bummer about the sale! I know Duke was saddened when he missed the place shutting down. So maybe the owners gave the stuff away to friends and family, of which some did not appreciate it, and it ended up in that barn?

I knew about O.A. outfitting the Tur Mai Kai, (that's where I got the menu cover in the BOT from), but the fact that Oceanic Arts were the main decor supplier does not neccessarily mean that Witco was not present. Individual, out of the way places that were not hotel chain operated often mixed and matched freely.

It'll be good to hear from Bill if he remembers this piece being done as a single one, or if it was made regularly for a while. He might not neccessarily know about the Tur Mai Kai having one (IF that hypothesis sticks), because often Witco decor was bought from reps, not directly from the company. For example, Bill never knew or had heard of the Hala Kahiki, they must have gotten all their stuff from the Chicago rep, or from Johnson Products (Chicago's O.A.)