Gorgeous couch. Looks like something that I would have gladly put in my living room - assuming that 1) I could get it up the stairs, and 2) I could AFFORD it. Pretty, though; in its heyday it must have been beautiful.
Since I live in an apartment where the living room is the largest out of the four rooms but has absolutely no windows in it, this kind of room would be MORE than welcoming to me!
These types of seats are reminiscent to the ones in my local junior high school (built in the 1920s), only there, the wooden backs have old red velvet cushions added on and the metal supports are all black (like wrought iron).
I always remember from theatre class in high school being scolded to handle all of the backdrops carefully, especially the older ones nearing replacement or refinishing, because they were so hellishly expensive (especially for our little high school) and were not easily or quickly replaced. We tended to reuse the few that our school actually owned quite often, and when we did order one in for a play or musical, a select few of us were allowed to handle the backdrop and help put it up. Seeing this backdrop hanging here, obviously disused and unloved, makes me think of high school - and how, if my teacher were to walk in there, he'd probably have a heart attack.
Beautiful shot. I've been looking through your galleries and have been tempted to post, but for some reason I haven't yet. Your photography has yet to make me scoff or say, "Wow, what crap." You are truly amazing!
As to the US's pathetic cigarette warning labels.. It's no wonder, seeing as how just about every other country in existence (that isn't third-world or communist) acknowledges the deadliness of cigarettes and tobacco in general, but in America we have to be nice about everything and pussyfoot around the truth so we don't accidentally offend someone who would be bothered by looking at the kind of pictures or the straight-to-the-facts statements included on Canadian and European cigarette packages. That, and tobacco companies here reign supreme. We're a generally pathetic nation.