One of the many items seen at the Milan Furniture Fair. Check out this past weekend's LA Times for a roundup of the best and the worst).
The other day, we shared with you how bringing home something new underscored that it was time to make some changes in our home. While many of us have recently been in survivor mode, you don't have to buy something new to know if its time to make some changes to your home. If your first thought on seeing this couch was, "That would totally go with my alpine-themed decor!" we're talking to you....
While most of us struggle to determine what our style is, we've been thinking lately that the minute you can put a label on your home, that that may be the real indication that it's time to make some changes. High, low, modern, vintage, plain, fancy; what's modern is mixing it up. It's picking and choosing from your favorites and then finding a way to tie them all together, whether that's by colour, leg style, material or pure chutzpah. All Hollywood Regency or all Mid-Century or all Organic Modern makes your home look like a page from a catalogue or like it's stuck in a time capsule. How's your home? Time to give it a jolt?
[image: via Woo Home; couch designed by Gaetano Pesce]
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Comments (15)
that is awful-awesome. so poor in taste it becomes good taste.
agreed! once you can name your style it begins to look generic.
That couch is perfect for the Pabst Blue Ribbon Bear...
These covers are kind of awesome. They remind me of the ski-jump themed powder room AT posted awhile ago.
We're in the Danish Modern-Modern camp.
Unlike that couch, which belongs in a camp rec room.
Not to worry, I could never name my style. Unless the name was vintageromanticasiananimalbohemian-docious, but I'm sure that leaves something out.
I'm with tenderleaf - the couches are so awful, they're almost cool.
makes me kinda queezy and like i want to jump in my barrel suit and dive over its falls all at once.
Huh? Every single entry in the recent Smallest, Coolest contest had some convoluted name. So, they should all import expensive kitsch to mix it up?
It's probably ok as long as one of the (usually two) words you use to define your style is "eclectic". Or something equally vague. (I like "global contemporary" -- YOU figure it out!) ;^)
The alpine sofas are just weird.
Did anyone else check out 'the worst' through the LA link. Some of that stuff is just FUGLY.....much like this couch. I have no idea what these designers were thinking.
Did someone just crack open a Molson?
I. Love. It.
O.M.G. This is awesome. (Awesomely hideous)
Such a wide gap has opened between the philosophical origins of 'Modernism' and they way the term is used today, that I think there needs to be a discussion (somewhere) about the differences between 'Modern,' as defined by 20th century Modernists like Mies, Breuer, Saarinen, et al., and 'modern' used to mean 'what innovative, forward looking people are doing now.' For instance, putting a chair by a 'Modern' designer on top of your refrigerator is definitely not 'Modern,' but it may be considered 'modern.'