I want to read a ridiculously detailed history of this design aesthetic and the kind of overstuffed fugly you see on Saudi private jets. Is there a name for it? What's the supply chain like? Who designs the stuff? Why can't they gild the space heaters too? I am full of questions.https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1436073189885546496 …
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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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Inherited wealth, right? This was tacky when my great-grandfather bought it, and now it is classic.
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That's one of my questions. Like will this look beautiful and elegant in 200 years' time?
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I assume it’s Russia’s influence. Looks like the interior of the Russian furniture emporium in my neighborhood, at any rate.
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Also kind of like the first floor of the Macy’s furniture department in Modesto. Although they manage to do the gilded, overstuffed aesthetic in a way that actually works, and is IMO better than the tasteful minimalist stuff aimed at Anglos on the second floor.
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As a Russian, I can assure it's totally a new money thing. I, too, am puzzled by its origins sometimes. (In case of Russian nouveau riche, it might be related by post-Soviet imperial revivialism.)
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There's definitely distinct Russian, Central Asian and Chinese versions of this aesthetic, too. I want an ethnography of awful new money!
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Your tastes are just centuries behind
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