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Hot or Not? Chalkboard Wall Art from 2004

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Amazing magazine cover from NY Times: Year in Ideas 2004. Photograph by Zachary Scott; illustrations by Nicholas Blechman, Christoph Niemann and Brian Rea.

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Maxwell left teaching in 2001 to start Apartment Therapy as a design business helping people to make their homes more beautiful, organized AND healthy. The website started up in 2004 with the help of his brother, Oliver.
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Comments (13)

Sick to death of seeing chalkboards in peoples homes...

posted by bepsf on 12.18.08 at 01:41PM

i have a chalkboard door in the kitchen/my bedroom

what no one ever mentions is that you will inevitably rub up against it and get chalk on your clothes :)

posted by dosergirl on 12.18.08 at 01:45PM

I agree with bepsf and dosergirl!

For me a chalkboard wall or a chalkboard anything is ridiculous, unless you are some kind of scientist or teacher who really needs to work on it at home, then it MAY be ok, otherwise, its kinda silly.
I may be the minority on this one.

posted by eddie p on 12.18.08 at 02:05PM

I think the chalk dust on his ass is hot.

posted by patrick (the other one) on 12.18.08 at 02:15PM

test

posted by Aaron Able on 12.18.08 at 03:22PM

I find using a chalkboard a lot more responsible than sheets and sheets of paper that'll get tossed in the recycle bin or shredder box...

posted by triedthistwice on 12.18.08 at 03:45PM

Enough with the chalkboards already! The whole thing strikes me as a forced march back to childhood, something I left behind a long time ago.

posted by Paulanater on 12.18.08 at 04:04PM

Another smart trend beaten to death by overuse.

posted by john m on 12.18.08 at 04:50PM

Wow, what's with all the chalkboard hate?

posted by patrick (the other one) on 12.18.08 at 04:51PM

i will say that i LOVE my chalkboard and here is why....
i live with 5 other people...ie a roommate situation of 6 people. we can write notes to eachother and you know everyone is going to see it, cause it is right there in the kitchen! bills need to be paid, wash your dishes, have a nice vacation.whatever, it is great. i would never want to use that many post its

chalk dust is always on my black hoodie though, and that is troublesome

posted by dosergirl on 12.18.08 at 05:50PM

2004, or 1994?

ENOUGH with the chalkboard stuff. It was cute when it was all over Met Home and such in the '90's. Like most child stars, it's all grown up now and not so cute anymore...

posted by nashdp on 12.18.08 at 06:41PM

I love the ability to be able to change art when I feel like it. I also love flat, matte black and white colors. I don't see why everyone hates chalkboard paint, its not necessarily the medium that makes it so much fun, its the ability to be creative without having to hang art (that you might get sick of). It allows you to change the feeling in a room without buying anything. Its as interesting as you make it, and it also looks crisp, tailored, unassuming and modern just black, with nothing on it.

I"m with you patrick, I don't understand what all the backlash is. Are people criticizing the art on the chalkboard above, or the fact that he drew it with chalk? Because its the cheapest way he could have done it that big, and he can change it whenever he feels like it. I think it looks great. Would people have criticized the drawing if it were framed and done in oil paint?

posted by immaterialgal on 12.19.08 at 01:15PM

AMEN- immaterialgal

Represent!

posted by Peter knockstead on 09.21.09 at 05:29PM
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