Quite the floor show was held recently during an evening reception at the downtown Little Rock antebellum home Curran Hall, which serves as the city of Little Rock’s Visitor Information Center, writes Linda S. Caillouet in Saturday’s HomeStyle.
Libations were flowing, but there was no singing or dancing.
Instead, all eyes were on the central hallway of the historic building at 615 E. Capitol Ave. — and they were all cast downward.
The main attraction? The floor, or more precisely, a new floor cloth — a 12-by-42-foot stretch of muslin covered with myriad coats of paint and protected with layers of clear varnish painstakingly designed and painted to replicate an 1850s floor covering.
See Saturday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for more about this 300-pound project.