Starting the week off with a severe historic discovery that I’ve under no circumstances seen nor heard of sooner than: Formica wall tiles. And by no means solely that, they’re New Outdated Stock of their genuine containers, with instructions, saved throughout the nick of time from going into the garbage on the ReStore, two favorite patterns — Camellia Sequin (gold glitter on a pink background) and Nassau. Howdy hudee to Mike, who saved these unusual and nice 1959 Formica wall tiles and is generously immortalizing them with us in our website online “museum.”
Formica wall tiles of their genuine containers
Mike writes:
Hiya Pam — Your web site is certainly among the many best available on the market and I often focus on with it when researching points. As you are such an necessary reference for traditional laminates I assumed I might share a uncover of mine – 3 full containers of Formica wall tiles from roughly 1959, one discipline is the pink with gold splatter, 2 containers are the similar coloration mix from the Nassau line. I’m undecided what I plan on doing with them however, nonetheless in the event you want only a few objects in your library I might be blissful to ship them. I’ve images of the tiles (10×10″) and containers in the event you want them moreover.
Oh my phrase, I about leap out of my pores and pores and skin, so passionate about this uncover. I’ve under no circumstances seen, heard or study these Formica wall tiles. Although… have in mind these Lam-o-Tiles I featured in 2015? The Formica and the Lam-o’s appear to be a very associated thought: An easy-to-install, easy-to-clean plastic completely different to ceramic tile or paint. They might want to have been one factor the commerce tried, nonetheless discarded for lack of market curiosity.
Unusual basic Formica wall tiles — of their genuine packaging — saved from the dumpster!
Mike sends me additional images and the once more story:
Hiya Pam, listed below are only a few additional images so that you could choose from do you have to weblog. It’s humorous that one factor as seemingly widespread as laminate is additional coveted than many objects of top quality furnishings that I’ve found, however it absolutely’s so exhausting to go looking out. We’ve got now a 1951 Boles Aero journey trailer that we’re refurbishing, which is why I was looking out for provides at a neighborhood Restore the place I found them — they thought they’d been merely trash and had been headed to the bin! Which I’m afraid is what happens to an entire lot of these items 🙁 Moreover, a question – I’ve seen some level out whereas researching the patterns that the Nassau patterns are a Raymond Loewy design, merely questioning in the event you perceive if that is true or not?
Cheers, mike
Thanks, Mike — these are so nice! 1,000,000 exclamation elements for you!
