Around 1951 Vladimir Kagan designed the present model headboard which caught the attention of actress and model Marilyn Monroe. According to the designer, “She walked into the 57th Street store most unassumingly, wearing a babushka on her head and no makeup, accompanied by a slim, rather scruffy man who turned-out to be Arthur Miller, her husband at the time. They fell in love with a bedroom set I had designed for the opening of the new shop…unfortunately, the order was never consummated, because shortly thereafter the couple divorced.”