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Inside the Bedrooms of 15 Cultural Icons

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Virginia Woolf apparently liked to have breakfast in bed before heading off to her writing room for the day. Leonard, of course, dutifully brought it to her. [via]

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The link to #8 is broken.

Strangely enough, Liberace’s bedroom is quite sedate.

The room displayed here is not necessarily Sylvia Plath’s room from the Barbizon. It MIGHT be LIKE her room was. The image was taken from a Barbizon promotional booklet that was printed in the 1930s.

The Puma ad at the top of the page is fucking obnoxious.

Peter Steinberg’s comment is correct. This is a great photo essay, but the inclusion of the Barbazon photo is the weakest link of them all. She only stayed at the hotel for A COUPLE OF MONTHS.

Nevermind that the caption is annoying and short-sighted. Depression inducing? Really? If I held up the same photograph and told you that it was Doris Day’s hotel room, would you call it depressing? Plath ended her life nine years after her New York internship. There’s no reason to attach that label to everything the woman did or touched.

In the context of The Bell Jar, Esther’s bedroom in Massachusetts would be the truly depressing-inducing one.

The rest of the photos and captions are great. I enjoyed the set.

[...] The bedrooms of 15 cultural icons. [...]

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