Thursday, November 22nd, 2012
An article on fashions in appliance colours (stainless steel vs. white) on oveninfo.com (a kitchen appliance website) quickly leads to a flame war in its comment section. Stainless steel is pitted against avocado and harvest gold, bellbottoms against video games and Vietnam vs. Iraq. When I was saying aesthetics are the thin end of the wedge of politics I wasn’t expecting the road to be quite this short.
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Tags: 1970s, 2010s, 70s, avocado, bellbottoms, decades, fridge, harvest gold, ice white, Iraq, oven, refrigerator, stainless steel, stoves, styles, Vietnam, Whirlpool
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
There’s something compelling about this photo of the bedroom of novelist Marguerite Duras in the house she bought in Neauphle, outside Paris, in the 1960s. The thin cot bed is so peculiar, like something she might have grown up with during her impoverished colonial childhood in French Indochina. For someone with such a life-long history of renowned lovers, it’s an austere bedroom.
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Tags: Bataille, bed, bedroom, bedspread, Blanchot, carpet, cot, dried flowers, France, French Indochina, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Marguerite Duras, Neauphle, Nest Magazine, novelist, orange carpet, Oushak rug, Paris, Portugal, Portuguese, rug, Sartre, The Lover, tile, Ushak, Vietnam, writer
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