Ambassador Hotel by gmcclusky on Flickr.

Wow, how bizarre. Striking similarities between the way I’ve worked with the tropical toiletries imagery and this wallpaper from the now demolished Ambassador Hotel in LA. I became fascinated with this hotel after watching ‘Bobby’ a few years ago. It stuck in my mind, and a few years later I looked it up online, to find there is a book, called ‘Late Check Out’ of images of the hotel. I also found out there was a nightclub in the hotel called the Cocoanut Grove - feeding my obsession with all things mid-century Polynesian pop. For some reason, today the Ambassador sprung into my mind so I looked it up on Flickr. Astonished by the similarity to the piece I’ve made - and I’d never seen it before….