#congoleum

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Congoleum, 1961

Theme Week: Interior Design 🏠

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Advertisement for Congoleum carpets and vinyl flooring (1973).

[designobjectory]

Ad for Congoleum's linoleum area rugs in Woman's Home Companion, December 1929

This is a firmly 1920s kitchen even though the ad is from 1929, with only one kitchen cabinet (in red with a white stool in front of it) featuring a relatively small work counter. The kitchen table has benches for seating and thre's a wall-hung rack near the sink, but the sink is freestanding on legs, without any cabinet space under it, and there are none of the tall built-in cabinets which started to appear sometimes in the late 1920s. The mother stands at a wheeled "tea wagon", an item which was very popular in the period.

The linoleum area rug itself is a peculiar mixture of a faux-textile rug effect, with the contrast border, and a field that seems to be going for more of a faux tile effect.

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Detail from a 1956 Congoleum Flooring ad by totallymystified

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Also available is Congoceilingeum and Congodrivewayeum.

Life - July 26th 1948

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[stone-cold-groove]

Congoleum Linoleum.

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1950 Congoleum Rug advertising