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The Most Exclusive Room in NYC - Vintage Stork Club Ashtray
There was a gold chain across the door at …
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The Most Exclusive Room in NYC - Vintage Stork Club Ashtray
There was a gold chain across the door at 3 East 53rd, and a man whose only job was deciding whether to unhook it for you.
If he did, you were inside the Stork Club — the room where café society actually happened. Not a metaphor for glamour, the literal address of it. Monroe came. Grace Kelly came. Hemingway, Chaplin, Judy Garland, the Kennedys and the Vanderbilts and the Roosevelts, all in the same few hundred square feet on the same nights.
A piece of the last era when going out was an event you dressed for. That's really what this stands for not celebrity, but the idea that the evening was worth the effort. Your guests pick it up, read the letters, and something shifts slightly: they're in a house where the details are considered.
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- Dimensions
- 5.25ʺW × 5.25ʺD × 1.5ʺH
- Period
- 1950s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Ceramic
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Black
- Condition Notes
- Great vintage condition. Great vintage condition. less
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