Post #485303 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Sep 27, 2009 12:31 AM

I saw this, a very commendable home lounge. To me the Golden Tiki concept (and the "paint-everything-gold" craze mentioned by Tikiskip in Collecting) is more at home in places like this:

...where taste atrocities such as these:

...freely mingle with gold or ivory painted faux bamboo furniture...

...and little "exotic" Sascha Brastoff-style chochkies such as this clutter the mantle piece:

This whimsical mixing of styles has had a revival in the last ten years as "Hollywood Regency" (another term for tacky designer glamour :wink: ), especially in Palm Springs, where it reigned in the late 60s/ 70s, and into the 80s in the homes of wealthy socialites, and then was picked up by the gay community in the 2000s. The success of the Parker Hotel...

...led to the (moderately successful) attempt of renovating the Riviera Resort:

...which is most noteworthy because of its spectacular lobby above.

I was able to squeeze one little authentic example of this type of scary taste environment into Tiki Modern, on page 134:

An unaltered-since-the-70s, original condominium at the Royal Hawaiian Estates in Palm Springs, which was completely decorated in yellow, with the bedroom in green. A dream for the urban archeologist, I documented it thoroughly and when I'll get home I will scan some slides.
This, to me, was the kind of interior where you would find a golden Tiki.