Unhappy Hipsters  

Delightful!
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Saw this the other day--
My favorite:
"Eames, Aalto-- her most significant relationships were with dead designers."

I'm partial to dark humor as...
I'm partial to dark humor as well....
Here's my fav, but you must see the picture (last) to fully appreciate it.
"He is sad because his house looks like an elementary school. And all the children have died."

For those
weirdos more interested in architecture than in its amusing inhabitants (?), the very first photo shows a postwar house in Armonk, NY, built by a Skidmore architect (still working, elsewhere, at 91) for his own use. The story -- in the current Dwell -- depicts the energetic and loving rescue and revival of the building by its new owners, a pair of fellows who knew what they wanted -- and relocated from the West Coast when they found it.

Wasn't that an exquisite house!?
I drooled all oover the pages...Egads it's lovely!

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That is an amazing house and rescue SDR. Just a few miles from me.
The unknown author of these funnies is adding at a rapid pace since i
last looked. Attention will do that. It getting old already.
But, "Maybe naming him Rimbaud wasn?t such a good idea.' : )

i see one of my homecrest...
i see one of my homecrest chairs...

Times caught it
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/garden/04online.html?ref=garden