Post #502438 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Jan 5, 2010 10:54 AM

Thanks for including the BOT, I indeed tried to make it so opening the pages would be like walking into a Tiki bar, with all its layers and textures. Books ARE a good low budget way of "acquiring" a rare art form: One can not have it all, but with a book you can behold it and enjoy it as if. Or, as in the case of Witco, when you are too bad taste-fearful to put it in your living room, you can enjoy it vicariously in Tiki Modern :)

I am shocked that even used BOTs hover around 100 bucks now, there must have been a Christmas rush, before X-mas I saw them as low as 50. Take note that Tiki Modern will soon meet the same fate, Taschen has only a couple of hundreds left, and they will not be reprinted.

I always loved the idea to use the BOT as wallpaper, old bars traditionally had themed restrooms. Purple Orchid did that when the book was still under 20.-bucks at Amazon, and the 254 color pages in it were a good deal in terms of covering square footage. I think Holden used original pages too for his Tiki Farm bar, and then there is that nouveaux Tiki Bar in....Dallas? (forgot name and place) that used color copies. I had no idea Frankie's did, cool!