Post #400015 by boutiki on Fri, Aug 8, 2008 7:39 PM

Aloha everyone!
I've enjoyed seeing all the great Witco pieces folks have posted on this thread. We have recently added a couple new pieces to our collection and along with Sven's Tiki Modern and the fact that we get to totally redo our Tiki room in our new place (Now with more Witco!) we are pretty jazzed on Witco right now. I finally sat down and photographed most of our Witco treasures. Sorry for the wildly inconsistent pictures — our old camera took a dive off an outdoor table and I've yet to get the hang of this new cheapy we got as a replacement.

This is what the Witco area of our old place looked like. We have more space now, but greater challenges (including a low ceiling) come with the space. Anyone want to help us with the build-out?

Here are the two new acquisitions. We got the one-arm chair on ebay and when I went to pick it up in Cleveland I was invited to see Tiki David's digs. He and his wife have a wonderful collection, are both great hosts, and Tiki David was super cool to hook me up with his two-arm Witco chair so Amy and I each have a chair to lounge in (like Archie and Edith Bunker?). The upholstery on both the chairs were pretty beat, so we redid them. Amy was thinking of the kid, the cat, the dog and the tropical drinks when she voted down replacing the leopard print and going with a period-appropriate orange Naugahyde. I think they came out pretty well. Thanks again to Tiki David!

I think the orange of the chairs will look just grand in the room with the large wahine wall hanging:

We also have the Polynesian couple, but just the figures:

These Primitic masks reflect the color palette that we want to incorporate into the new Tiki room. We brought them home from a trip to Washington DC a while back:

The firedancers usually have an orange background, but ours is white. We rescued this from a resale shop in Michigan City, IN which burned to the ground a couple years later.

Another recent addition to the collection is the bongo player. Got him at the Aku Tiki auction. I've wanted one of these forever.

Amy got this for me as a Father's Day present:

Here is a shot of our bar. The same design is on page 165 of Tiki Modern. I brought this home from a trip to South Florida.

On another S. Florida trip a couple years later I found these:

Two different friends hooked us up with these two different lamps:

Another fellow Tiki Collector told us about this guy sitting in a second-hand shop in Kentucky back in '98. Amy and I trekked down there and brought him home.

There is a long story that goes with this fountain. Ask me another time and I'll share the tale. It came from a Kalamazoo, MI estate.

Another estate sale score is this Wahine chair. We bought it in Chicago long-distance while we were fleeing hurricane Jeanne during Hukilau 2004 (With help from bamboolodge of course. Thanks!)

Since our bar only has two stools, we do have a few more for guests:

Some cool masks for the wall:

I like this mask, but I think there is some dispute as to whether it's really Witco.

A couple mid-size Tikis. The one on the right came from Elkhorn Flea Market in Wisconsin.

And two little Tikis:

Of course, our passion for Witco also includes contemporary work. Amy got this Bosko piece when we were in Toronto for the Savage City Tiki art show at Swizzle Gallery in the summer of 2000.

And if we don't find vintage examples of a couple of our favorite Witco designs soon we'll be asking Ken to carve us up some.

-Duke