"BAADASSS BALLIN' BEDROOMS of the 70s": That's how this retro website leads off with this lovely assortment of pics collected from the good old days. What is RetroCrush, you may ask? actually beyond our comprehension, but you could spend hours trolling it...
Take out the plants and the basket, and this would be a variation of my bedroom. So, of course, I love it--in all it's badass ballin' glory.
I like the mirrored closet doors (Just like mine - LOL) and the dog basket is a nice touch too. Too bad my dog still prefers my bed over the her basket.
You do mean the bad old days, right? Because the '70s? I don't care if Jonathan Adler likes 'em; I think they're awful as anything but kitsch. It's also the era of bad fashion, bad porn-star mustaches, mostly bad hair... blech. Even RetroCrush refers to them as "rooms you'd have to be stoned to enjoy." ;)
(This room isn't SO bad, I just bristle at the 70s being called "The Good Old Days." Seriously, has no one else ever seen the "Interior Desecrations" site or the book it became? It's such a handy reference to encapsuate the fear and loathing I feel for 93% of That Which Is Seventies... and I really don't care if someone decided that a revival would be trendy.)
A little warning that that site isn't the safest place to visit at work would have been nice...
AH--what did you expect from "Baadasss ballin' bedrooms"?
I want my bedroom to be pimped like that!! It almost makes me want to take up macrame. Thanks for introducing me to the site.
Much like Williamsburg hipsters dancing to old Depeche Mode tunes and singing along ironically to Bon Jovi's Living on a Prayer, the problem with retro-revivals is that the folks leading the revival are either too young and or were too stoned back then to remember it first time around.
The best parts get cherry picked and we forget that the diamonds lived amongst a pile of crapola (much like these bedrooms).
But that's the fun of retro - we get to keep the good stuff - like Eames chairs - and leave the bad stuff - like Leave It To Beaver haircuts.
The site posted this letter in response to the article (someone needs a humor transplant):
"You might want to explore the history of some of the components you are showing. The womb chair by Saarinen is arguably the simplest most outstanding chair and ottoman ever manufactured. You also show the Eames rosewood chair which was first manufactured in the early sixties. Original versions of this chair easily go for three times the amount of the brand new ones they still sell today. Just the fact that a product can remain on the market for fifty years proves it to be a classic design.
"Yes, you do show a lot of crap in most of those photo's, but you really goofed by including photo's with many examples of fine modern furniture. The interiors you show are probably all from the seventies, and the use of some of the finishes and materials is questionable, but go back and take a look at some of your outfits you wore in those years, I bet they are just as, if not more tasteless.
-Jeff Sokalski www.effdesign.com"