Armstrong Flooring model 5352, the best-selling flooring product ever made.

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Armstrong Flooring model 5352, the best-selling flooring product ever made. Odds you've been in a house with this if you lived between 1930 and 2000: 100%. Designed by Hazel Dell-Brown of Armstrong.

HDB is one of those people whose influence is as massive as her anonymity (outside the company, at least)

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MID CENTURY CULTURE

Hazel Dell Brown of Armstrong Flooring — the most influential residential interior designer of the 20th Century (that you probably never heard of)

Pam Kueber April 6, 2020

Was Hazel Dell Brown of Armstrong Flooring the most influential residential interior designer of the 20th Century — that you probably never heard of? I believe that, yes, she was! Last week, I wrote about Armstrong Flooring’s revival of its famous pattern 5352, and then, a history of pattern 5352. To follow up, here’s a profile of Hazel Dell Brown, the company’s influential and impressive in-house interior decorator — a story that should not be lost to history.

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Some might say that some of the rooms … pushed the limits of “good taste.”



c. 1948 pink bathroom by Hazel Dell Brown. MBJ Collection / Building Technology Heritage Library

In fact, someone did say such things. To which Mrs. Brown responded that ‘advertising is different from pure art. In her field over-emphasis is a necessary evil.’

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She doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page. This is a travesty.

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1. My aunt and uncle had this put in their kitchen when they built their house.

60 years later, still there.

[flor-de-jasmim]

2. My parents had it in their kitchen in the house they owned 1968-1972.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

3. I knew it was gonna be that one!

My parents had that flooring installed in our early '60's kitchen in the early 70's. It lasted until my brother remodeled in the early 2000's.

[Freddie]

4. That was in the kitchen of the townhouse

We bought in 1983 (at 13.5% interest!). I thought it was ugly but it was in good condition so it stayed there and became the next owner’s problem.

[Kali]

5. OMG I LOVE that bathroom!!!

I want that sink...in just about ANY color!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Someone said this in a reply:

This was my grandparents’ bathroom, Long Island NY, house built 1940s.

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[eppur_se_muova]

7. That's a good pattern -- it repeats, but it's broken up so much it's not obvious.

Plus, each individual square lacks symmetry, so you can rotate them four different ways and break up the regularity even more.

Really obvious repeats -- especially with a short repeat distance -- can cause dizziness, as your eyes can find several different angles at which the L&R images seem to match, but giving you different impressions of how distant the floor (or wall) is. Small, plain, single-color tiles are really bad about this -- but are common in public restrooms.

[yellowdogintexas]

8. we had the red brick combo of that kitchen flooring

I have always liked it.