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RPPC Postcard 1920s Bernheimer Home Interior Hollywood California AZO Rare
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RPPC · 1922

RPPC Postcard 1920s Bernheimer Home Interior Hollywood California AZO Rare

Hollywood, California, USA1922RPPCGood

Step inside the inner sanctum of one of early Hollywood's most extravagant private homes: this real-photo postcard reveals the richly appointed Japanese-style interior of the Bernheimer Home on the Hollywood Hills, where hexagonal silk-patterned wallcoverings, an ornate crystal-and-glass pendant chandelier, deeply tufted velvet chesterfield sofas, and a carved roundel coffee table create a sumptuously layered Japonisme interior that blurs East and West into something entirely Californian. A portrait in a gilt frame hangs above the sofa, and decorative brackets laden with exotic objects crowd every surface — the aesthetic maximalism of the Gilded Age expressed through an Orientalist lens that was equally fashionable and culturally complex. Charles Bernheimer's estate drew Hollywood's early film colony and curious tourists alike, and interior views of this caliber are exceptionally rare in the RPPC record, making this card a singular document of early 20th-century Los Angeles design history.

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