May 17
There is an unmatched, unhinged energy to early 1980s marketing. Kohler decided that the best way to sell high-end gold bathroom fixtures was to create a surrealist fever dream. Why is there a woman in a pink one-piece swimsuit and a magician's top hat squatting in the middle of a desert wasteland at twilight? Why is she holding a purple glittering disc on a string? We may never know, but it sure makes you want to remodel your bathroom into a surreal art gallery.
Source: Kohler Ad, Home Decorating Magazine, January 1981.
