![porthole-bk-door_6101 porthole-bk-door_6101](https://www.alleewillis.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/porthole-bk-door_6101.jpg)
I have three of these insanely beautiful vintage portholes off of a 1952 Chris-Craft boat. I found them in three separate eBay auctions a few years apart.
![porthole-sub_6099 porthole-sub_6099](https://www.alleewillis.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/porthole-sub_6099.jpg)
![porthole-closet_6100 porthole-closet_6100](https://www.alleewillis.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/porthole-closet_6100.jpg)
I love all portholes but especially these with the chrome fins across the glass.
![porthole-fins_6106 porthole-fins_6106](https://www.alleewillis.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/porthole-fins_6106.jpg)
My studio is a classic Streamline Moderne boat looking structure built as the MGM party house in 1937 and although there were no portholes when I moved in it was screaming, no BEGGING, for me to pop a few in.
![house house](https://www.alleewillis.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/house.jpg)
As much as I love these they’re not my favorite porthole around here. That honor is reserved for my $11 used-to-be-a-flimsy-brass-mirror porthole that I sunk into the floor and now serves as my laundry chute.
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My laundry chute porthole was featured in the Los Angeles Times twice last year alone. When I get completely frustrated writing, painting, making films, curating AWMoK.com and everything else I fill my time with I always think I could go into the business of selling porthole laundry chutes.
Studio photo: Maryanne Bilham