When Good Design Goes Bad
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cimoreneFinnish design is at the forefront. The aesthetic is simple, bold, colourful, and often natural. It's one of the most stylish places in the world, if you ignore the shoes. Deko is my favourite design magazine, but the taste for edgy and kitsch can go a lot overboard in their editorials department or wherever they set this shit up. This leads me to make D:-faces, and mock at length, like
The artist in charge of this Pac-Man bathroom is storing her paintbrush on top of this dresser (maybe it's full of paint?) with some finished projects (like the empty yellow picture frame! Brilliant!) and the Hillbilly Wedding Cake (ha-ha! Hillbillies don't have cake; they just eat... plywood with... bits of paper glued to it?) that she picked up at one of those creepy backcountry gas stations. She's also apparently out somewhere wearing one orange and one green vintage Reebok from the 80s, possibly dressed as Claudia at a Babysitter's Club costume competition. I hope she's careful with her diary there and doesn't get paint on it. We wouldn't want this lovely little bathroom tableau to be spoiled. Possibly that decoration... table swag... thing... was a leftover from an attempt to create a glow-in-the-dark life-size model of an art nouveau house using nothing but highliters and an old shower curtain.
This little display, which I can only assume to be in a hall or entryway of some kind, is supposed to be kitschy granny-cute. Granny's designer Japanese wallpaper would have gone quite well with the black dresser-thingy, if not for that ugly wooden bow-like decoration on the front of it, but as Grannies do, she went wild with her Creepy Children Vintage Sewing Kit in a Lunchbox, her Miniature Dentist's Chair, and that lamp made out of driftwood that she picked up at the Salvation Army. She ran out of plate stands in the dining room so she thought that it'd be just as nice to simply lean a couple of plates against the wall and hope really hard that they didn't fall over. She's probably been embroidering My Little Ponies on that tablecloth for months, but it's slow going because she's becoming blind, and hasn't been able to find her reusable fabric grocery shopping bag for months: she can't distinguish it, or the inexplicably-stuffed clotheshanger it's dangling from, from the wallpaper.
It's not really the dresser here that's had a Cobra Starship merch shirt regurgitated on it, it's more like the wall. The dresser is fine, in fact. It's just the mysterious paperweight, salt and pepper shakers, toiletry bag, diary, and upholstered rolls of masking tape upon it that are bewildering, not to mention the creepy soulless naked woman doll, the giant piece of craftboard decorated with ribbons and a Dress-Me-Up David doll, and the wall hooks adorned with hideous cheapo jewelry. I do like the lamp, though. And the journal, honestly.
Next time on interior design theatre: Deko getting it right!
The artist in charge of this Pac-Man bathroom is storing her paintbrush on top of this dresser (maybe it's full of paint?) with some finished projects (like the empty yellow picture frame! Brilliant!) and the Hillbilly Wedding Cake (ha-ha! Hillbillies don't have cake; they just eat... plywood with... bits of paper glued to it?) that she picked up at one of those creepy backcountry gas stations. She's also apparently out somewhere wearing one orange and one green vintage Reebok from the 80s, possibly dressed as Claudia at a Babysitter's Club costume competition. I hope she's careful with her diary there and doesn't get paint on it. We wouldn't want this lovely little bathroom tableau to be spoiled. Possibly that decoration... table swag... thing... was a leftover from an attempt to create a glow-in-the-dark life-size model of an art nouveau house using nothing but highliters and an old shower curtain.
This little display, which I can only assume to be in a hall or entryway of some kind, is supposed to be kitschy granny-cute. Granny's designer Japanese wallpaper would have gone quite well with the black dresser-thingy, if not for that ugly wooden bow-like decoration on the front of it, but as Grannies do, she went wild with her Creepy Children Vintage Sewing Kit in a Lunchbox, her Miniature Dentist's Chair, and that lamp made out of driftwood that she picked up at the Salvation Army. She ran out of plate stands in the dining room so she thought that it'd be just as nice to simply lean a couple of plates against the wall and hope really hard that they didn't fall over. She's probably been embroidering My Little Ponies on that tablecloth for months, but it's slow going because she's becoming blind, and hasn't been able to find her reusable fabric grocery shopping bag for months: she can't distinguish it, or the inexplicably-stuffed clotheshanger it's dangling from, from the wallpaper.
It's not really the dresser here that's had a Cobra Starship merch shirt regurgitated on it, it's more like the wall. The dresser is fine, in fact. It's just the mysterious paperweight, salt and pepper shakers, toiletry bag, diary, and upholstered rolls of masking tape upon it that are bewildering, not to mention the creepy soulless naked woman doll, the giant piece of craftboard decorated with ribbons and a Dress-Me-Up David doll, and the wall hooks adorned with hideous cheapo jewelry. I do like the lamp, though. And the journal, honestly.
Next time on interior design theatre: Deko getting it right!
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Date: 2 Mar 2008 03:38 pm (UTC)...but on the plus side, there's a Goomba in the first picture! Also, Space Invaders mosaic wall = FTW. I can't see anything Pacman related in the pic though, which is a shame.
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Date: 3 Mar 2008 04:25 pm (UTC)Red would do just as well.