mad4modern's Profile

I find Tim Ross' house to be cliched and kitsch in the extreme. Mid century modern was a style that was clean, fresh and "modern", yet warm and elegant in the hands of great practioners like Richard Neutra, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, John Lautner, Paul Rudolph, and in Australia, Harry Seidler, to name but a few.

The home of Tim Ross is a long way from these. Like so many of the latest to "jump on the (fasionable) bandwagon", Ross has sought to encapture the ethos with none of the understanding of the philosophy behind this movement, artistic or otherwise. Being a "celebrity" of somewhat dubious claim does not make one a practioner of taste and style.

A riot of colour and cheap materials, it is more a "vomit" of individual pieces, scraped together (no doubt from 'Vampt') in a desperate attempt to impress family and friends.

And by the way, the "Grant Featherston teal chair" as described in the caption below your photo is actually a Grant Featherston B210 TV Chair. A small detail, but one an afficionado such as Mr Ross should have known.