How did the fantastically rich in the Middle East and Central Asia get to this level of tackiness from a tradition of centuries of beautiful design? Is it a new money thing? And what's the mechanism that makes expensive things eventually look good, if they start like this?
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This place looks like Jony Ive's personal hell and I want to know what we can do to imprison him there.https://twitter.com/bsarwary/status/1426624176073367554 …
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He got a print of the horse_ebooks picture, clearly a devotee of weird Twitter
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>Who designs the stuff? Designer who can't make it anywhere else. Usually Europeans. It's not a very prestigious gig at all. They don't really end up on the cover of AD.
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This author called it „Dictator Chic“ some years ago:https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/trump-style-dictator-autocrats-design-214877/ …
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The swimming pool is legitimately really nice though
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Was just thinking this! Except the fake beach mosaic is pretty tacky, ngl. Should have just stuck to abstract geometric designs all around.
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Somebody wrote a book about this; a guy who photographed the palaces of many dictators.
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New hype house just dropped
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