So I wish I could say all the furniture and accessories heading your way are inspired by these items ... I'll list 'em anyway:
Primary colors. This is the snazziest two-dollar book I've bought on the street in a long time. They just don't make hombres like they used to.
Plaster Giacometti lamps. I saw a copy like this one at a thrift store recently and thought "Hot diggity dang, here's my chance!" Right. What is wrong with America when they're charging less on 1stDibs??
Saw the real deal (I think) at Mrs. MacDougall this morning along with some gorgeous J-M Frank benches and cool Hinson lighting -- sort of like a lightbox drinks table in, guess what, primary colored plexi. The rich [stores] are different.
Print hybrids. What's a teopard? Right now pretty much my favorite animal.
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I was at market this weekend as well and talk about over kill...that RH stuff was everywhere. Over it.
ReplyDeleteThank you for saying this, Nick. For a while, all the puff-piece reviews of this haggard, worn-out look made me think that I the only one who didn't think it was all the greatest thing since stale bread. Lately, some other bloggers have talked about it, too, but I think you're by far the youngest.
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing an early photo of that giant Restoration Hardware bookcase in an ad a year or so ago, at which point I sort of liked the weathered finish, since it was a change from all that dark wood. But that was before I found out that the finish wasn't just on that piece, but on everything in the whole damn store. The place is like an isolation ward for terminal-case furniture, full of pallid pieces just waiting to shuffle off the mortal coil. And now I see in the new World of Interiors that the sickness has spread to what used to be the glamorous world of Ralph Lauren. I'm just as much an Anglophile as RL and I love Dickens,but I consider Miss Havisham a cautionary figure, not a role model.
But it gets worse, although, I guess, if you have a sense of humor, it gets a little better. Toby Worthington sent me a copy of a new ad from another manufacturer that has the same joyless vibe, but whose background is even grimmer than the unheated chateau in the RH ads: a maximum-security prison interrogation cell, with concrete block walls, harsh high-intensity lighting shooting down from above & barricaded windows. Just the look I want to create at home! I would have loved to sit in on the creative team meeting that came up with that idea. Any day now, I expect to see an ad with an ashy, dessicated sleigh bed trailing tattered gray linens as it rises out of an open grave.
I get all confused with the orange-ish cat prints, too. Jaguar? Tiger? Leopard? Ocelot? Marmot?
ReplyDeleteThe best part about Restoration Hardware is that they have redone their stores to showcase the "big" furniture, the tripod stage lights, the torn binding books. At least it's fodder for catalog living. I'm only 4'10" tall and that furniture scares me.
ReplyDeleteWhy, why does everone have to jump on the bandwagon. Mix it up use your inner sense. Blend fabulous fabrics and color,art and architecture. A painted piece or two in your favorite shade of pale or even bright red. just don't be a minnow!
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"The Butch and the Belgian"--a Randy Blue Production.
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ReplyDeleteoooo...that lamp! want!
ReplyDeleteI never get tired of your charm and your artistic approach to furniture and design.
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Excellent information and facts. Only real difficulty I was basically receiving was viewing the pics. No idea exactly why.
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