Retrophilia: Special Effects
retrophilia (ret troh FEE lee uh) n. 1 An intense attraction for things of the past. 2 a weekly series for popsucker wherin the irrepressible Wootini reveals the horrors of the past to the present to avoid making the same mistakes in the future.
Look. Don't even try to figure out what the little picture is. Just make the jump. Yeah, I know you can see monkeys hanging off of trees, but that's not what this is about. This is about bad decorating decisions. I mean horrifically bad. And they don't get a free pass just because it was the seventies. Go on and see!
I know, I know... try not to look directly at it. It's like a perfect storm of matching patterns. You can barely even see the couch. Honestly, the thing that pops in this scene is the framed illustration, and I don't know if thats really what they were going for here.
"Combining fabrics with related wallcoverings takes on an entirely new dimension with this provocative group..."? It takes on no dimension. It's like you're being sucked into a black hole of busy-ness with all that... whatever it is. Monkeys and palm trees, from what I can see. Ugly on its own, so why not plaster it all over anything that's not nailed down?!
They claim to have 22 designs in 100 colorways, and I really want to know what the hell a "colorway" is. Because to me, this looks like the wrong colorway. And touting that their work is only available through professional interior decorators is good, because it means that their monstrous eye-gouging patterns won't make it into as many homes as if it were available at Sears. Unless that's what they consider a "fine store."
At any rate, I appreciate that they've credited the design for this setting to John Leigh Spath, so we know just who to blame. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go look at something beige.
Wootini
Posted to Hot Stuff, Retrophilia on 4 May 2009
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I'm pretty sure that's not a framed illustration -- it's just a mirror.
Also John Leigh Spath was the homosexual gay lover boyfriend of poet Donald Rawley, it seems.
Also also this room would be a fun place to watch a person with no depth perception try to walk around in.
Is it just me or does the caption at the bottom look like the surgeon generals warning? Honestly it might need one; looking directly into this room has been known to cause bad fashion. or something like that.