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Oh, man. Can I move in there?

Nice stuff.

But can the writers on this site stop using the Domino and Lucky favorite words "curated" (as in "well-curated") and "edited" (as in "tightly-edited) to describe the merchandise in a store? Please. It's so pretentious. These are *stores*, people, not museums. It's just *stuff you can buy*, not precious cultural artifacts.

It's bad enough when Domino and Lucky do it but at least I can brace myself before I open them.

Yes, very nice stuff.

Perhaps "curated" and "edited" have been overly used and co-opted in the design world since the days after Warhol and the bastardization of Joseph Beuy's "everyone's an artist" (rant for another day), but stores are to some degree about showmanship (as if museums aren't pretentious).

Store displays have to prey on your psyche, tug on your heart/purse strings and look visually enticing or at the very least be prominently in-your-face to sell those **things**, whether it's a carmel boutique or your local walmart. *Someone* needs a good eye for all that in-store-advertising (and psychological subtext), which is a form of mental/visual editing and curation.

Lookingupatleaves, it's not that I don't agree with you on some level, as the substitution of the word "art" for was is essentially "decoration" makes me cringe.... but I think design is inherently peacock-feathery pretentious. And the world of words is prone to fashionably fickle free-ranging.

Don't worry. Other words will be the new (verbal) black before long.

I like the word curated. And I like this store.

This store is very inspiring- however, I found it to be outrageously expensive.

Curated...I like it.