A vibrant, hand-drawn letterhead from Los Gallos ("The Roosters"), the Taos estate of art patron Mabel Dodge Luhan. During the 1920s and 1930s, this historic adobe home became a gathering place for influential artists and writers, including D.H. Lawrence, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Ansel Adams, shaping the cultural landscape of the American Southwest. In 1970, shortly after filming Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper bought Los Gallos, renamed it the Mud Palace, and carried on its bohemian legacy, hosting the likes of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Jack Nicholson. I’m yet to find a Mud Palace letterhead.
As a former art /creative director: this vanity design hogs more than a third of the available space on the sheet of paper. What business with anything worthwhile to communicate would have approved that? Oh, I know, a non-serious nepo-baby art commune. Still, it's interesting.