Witco Oceanic Bedroom Set - Tiki Marketplace

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Mon, Apr 9, 2012 8:48 AM On 2012-04-09 08:01, Chuck Lava wrote: ...For one thing, they aren't carved. The relief detailing is some sort of resin. And didn't Witco start moving away from Tiki/Oceanic and into different design territory in their final years? Dang, so those abstract mod shapes are not carved wood !? Could have fooled me...kinda disappointing, I thought it was some fine tree material like Koa or such. Witco actually made some of their most outrageous Tiki bars, sofas and whole bedroom sets in the early to mid-70s. It was mostly in their last year of 1976 that they tried the Scandinavian blond wood look - still with some Tiki designs included. And they never called it "Oceanic", it was called Polynesian - or African. :)

On 2012-04-09 08:01, Chuck Lava wrote:
...For one thing, they aren't carved. The relief detailing is some sort of resin. And didn't Witco start moving away from Tiki/Oceanic and into different design territory in their final years?

Dang, so those abstract mod shapes are not carved wood !? Could have fooled me...kinda disappointing, I thought it was some fine tree material like Koa or such.

Witco actually made some of their most outrageous Tiki bars, sofas and whole bedroom sets in the early to mid-70s. It was mostly in their last year of 1976 that they tried the Scandinavian blond wood look - still with some Tiki designs included. And they never called it "Oceanic", it was called Polynesian - or African. :)

Post #631802 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Apr 9, 2012 8:48 AM