Interiors

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Just been reading about William Randolph Hearst buying not just artifacts but entire rooms and having them transported across the Atlantic:

Entire historic interiors would be acquired – panelling, fireplaces, doors, paintings, timbers and plaster ceilings, libraries and tapestries -

Bizarre to read about a room going missing and being stored somewhere. It's like something out of Borges:

In the 1990s, the owners of Gwydir traced one of the castle’s two missing interiors, a 1640s room, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which acquired it from Hearst. The room had been stored at the museum for decades, and the owners bought and reinstated it.

guardian.com/culture/2017/mar/05/art-historians-seek-missing-uk-treasures-us-hearst-hoard-return-to-britain

 

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Silencio, the Chicest Club in Paris, Opens a Very Red New York Location

Interior designer Harry Nuriev was inspired by the Lynchian aesthetic of ‘Twin Peaks’—as well as his own signature vibrant minimalism.

www.vogue.com

 

[WashYourHands]

hint of Mecca bingo

 

[luka]

they wouldnt let us in

 

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watched Stigmata last night and the best thing about it was the production design; Patricia Arquette's a Pittsburgh hairdresser living in a huge Art Deco meets late '90s apartment.

 

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Baudrillard, The System of Objects

It's good, this. He's talking about how interior design was once based around furniture that represented morals and the patriarchal system, but evolved into functional objects and became more about how these objects inhabited space, related to one another, and the creation of 'atmosphere'.

 

[craner]

It's good, this. He's talking about how interior design was once based around furniture that represented morals and the patriarchal system, but evolved into functional objects and became more about how these objects inhabited space, related to one another, and the creation of 'atmosphere'.

It's the best of his boring ones.

 

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It's the best of his boring ones.

He was still trying to be an academic at that point.

 

[craner]

He was still trying to be an academic at that point.

I know, it's really great the moment he just thinks "fuck it" and lets go. Fatal Strategies was that moment, I think. Wasn't it?

 

[version]

I know, it's really great the moment he just thinks "fuck it" and lets go. Fatal Strategies was the moment, I think. Wasn't it?

Yeah, sounds about right. He always had a bit of the prankster in him, but it seems like he also wanted to be accepted by the academy up until some point in the 80s when he turned into "Baudrillard".

 

[craner]

It took him all of the 70s to realise that the 60s had rejected him, so he took his revenge by defining the 80s.

 

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It took him all of the 70s to realise that the 60s had rejected him, so he took his revenge by defining the 80s.

And writing off the 90s before they arrived.

 

[craner]

There's definitely an edge of resentment in Baudrillard and it's not just 'Forget Foucault' that gives the game away.

 

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You can see the seeds of later Baudrillard in this:

"One material sums up the idea of atmosphere and may be thought of as embodying a universal function in the modern environment. That material is GLASS. Advertising calls it 'the material of the future' - a future which, as we all know, will itself be 'transparent'. Glass is thus both the material used and the ideal to be achieved, both end and means. So much for metaphysics."

That excerpt preempts our discussion of 'dematerialisation' and 'the new transparency' by about fifty years.

" - the miracle of a rigid fluid - "