Gustaf's Profile

I wonder what AT's coveted advertisers will think now that knock-offs are being promoted here. Personally I consider making and buying knock-offs as a form of theft. Encouraging people to buy them falls just short of that.

Modfan, good points. Just to be clear: I have nothing against DWR. I have never purchased anything from them but I often browse their website and I would probably frequent their stores and arrangements if I lived nearby. I also have nothing against AT's relationships with DWR per se, and I understand that AT, like any business, needs to maintain as good relationships with their sponsors/investors as they do with their customers. It only becomes a problem when a business starts pleasing the former on the expense of the latter. AT is not there yet, but there are worrying signs that they are heading in that direction.

patrick (the other one):

First of all, yes, I believe the editors knew that. You are free to think otherwise.

Second, I should stand down because we disagree? Well, I am not going to do that. Telling someone to shut up because you disagree with them is childish at best, and fascist at worst. Do you belong to either of those demographics?

If not, how about instead you accept that people on the Internet will have opinions that differ from your own, and that allowing people to post and comment does not imply that they should all be positive and supportive and agree all the time? Because regardless of what you think, that is not going to happen. Even AT understands this, which is why they closed comments on that sponsored post the other day. A form of censorship that is highly questionable (seeing as all comments were removed, not only the inappropriate ones).

So I suggest you stop for a minute and reflect on the fact that you are advocating exactly that: censorship, not just of the written word but of thoughts and ideas. This makes you either terribly naïve or something much worse.

The place has potential but two things ruin the look and feel for me. First, all the wood furniture is almost the same color. This evokes feelings of uniformity and austerity which are at odds with what I believe is the intended effect of the overall decoration. Second, all the artwork is by the same artist in the same style, and unfortunately it is one that does not go very well with the rest of the apartment. It could though, if there was more variation in the color and texture of the furniture.

DWR is not the only store with a Knoll sale. Is this another paid advertisement?

I just see another place to put useless stuff. What's next? Ceilings? Sad.

Super cool in many ways. And this may be the first time I've seen a yellow bed.

Dark and unpersonal. It does remind me of a hotel, but not one that I would stay at.

Tastefully decorated but stuffed way past the coolness factor. To me, living small and cool is about distancing oneself, physically as well as mentally, from possessions that are not necessary, thereby minimizing the need of space as well as maximizing the feeling of space. It is not about adding as much as possible to as little as possible, as is the case here.

Splendid!