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01/12/2007 1:31 am  

Anyone ever notice signs that say something like 'big bobs designer rugs'

Or 'hair - by design' and theres a salon with white plastic Eames knockoffs and something astoundingly radical like metal floors (!) and you get bowled over by the banality of it.

I'm so sick of eye candy, I'm not a two year old and don't have to be seduced into buying something.

And f**k Christams


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01/12/2007 2:26 am  

HP here in America the...
HP here in America there is a thing called MADISON AVE maybe not as strong as it was in the 60's maybe stronger in a different way
They tell you how to eat where to eat and when to shit, Daniel Boorstin?s 1961 book The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America is notable as an early, landmark attempt to describe aspects of American life that were later
termed hyperreality and postmodernity
Madison ave always thought they were the cleverest of all with the original eye candy, when it is time to stick cool modern stuff in something to give a cozy feeling with out it being a down home country flair. or a day on the farm,
they are there sticking the Eames lcw in the picture, or something else cool that someone can remember in a kinder Gentler time,
i have to confess I am 56 born in the early 50s and grew up in the 60s and remember that period real well always worrying about shipping out to Viet Nahm, cause of poor grades in high school.
I can honestly say I just don't remember the modern thing , the Eames Era as it was called, the pop 60's .
I loved it and love it now but it was not a common way of life back then and if anyone tells you different they just don't know,
my folks were wealthy and we traveled and very few families had the modern thing going on, out of 50 people maybe 1, the wildest modern was Edward Wormely for Dunbar. and he was a modern flair for the rich , Baker furniture was for the very wealthy .
I hate to say it folks most wealthy people were not interested in putting fiberglass Eames shells or even Saarine Tulip chairs in the 85.000 dollar mansions back then, they were out there, for the highly educated ones, and professional people, who also liked fine music and good stereos and small roadster cars, Times have changed , but a few things came out of that era that will always be great, and we all know what they are,
We just did not have the opportunity to appreciate back then, but i have made up for it now ..... maybe a little late


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