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too many "props."

I think it looks a bit like superficial accumulation...

I follow the modernist dictum : form follows function. that doesn't mean everything should look like a white cube, but this rampant accumulation and crowding on the part of 2 twenty/young 30 somethings (I'm guessing...) seems a bit mindless.

the meaning that things have to someone is what makes them meaningful... and i risk sounding rigid when i say that objects accumulate their meaning with time and love... it's not just about grabbing everything dusty and old in your nearest junk shop and stacking it everywhere...

like that bar in park slope on union street with the walls lined with bookshelves lined with fake books...

REAL books take longer to procure...

i don't have the feeling that the owners of all this have given any real thought to what the meaning the stuff has to them, which makes it all seem sort of cold and pretentious, but very seductive to people seeking to project things about themselves...

Old English hunting boots that aren't worn artfully leaning against the chesterfield - gimme a break. it's really very cynical - "you know that we don't use these and we know that we don't ha ha ha"

they were already mentioned in a NY-times article about hipster style...

i feel like it's a model for how i don't want my house to look.

this is one of the most beautiful homes i've ever seen on AT.

i was getting a bit sick of AT - everything is mid-century modern, like mid-century modern is the new pottery barn or something.

but it's not fair to say that because mid-century - Bertoia chairs for instance - are actually very beautiful and elegant...

Martha and Ben used mid-century modern furniture as it should be used, as functional and beautiful pieces which they updated and historicized and personalized in their gorgeous brownstone. The animal skulls, skins, old trunks, books, quilts and art warm up the furniture so that it all melds into their home in happy harmony rather than just being a game of "spot the 500 dollar chair."

bravo

i know this will sounds very mean-spirited but i think it's oppressively girly... in a kind of "shabby chic" way. it doesn't look really antique and it looks all sort of overly upholstered.

i can't see the exterior of the Parisian building, but assuming it's one of the classic Haussmanian buildings we associate with Paris, the 19th c. architectural details will be sufficiently beautiful offset by some austerity. All the doo-dads and tchotchkes cover it all up.

This could be Indianapolis or Des Moines or NYC or Shanghai. It looks like faux-Baroque a la shabby chic.

thanks for the inspirational way you hung all your posters. i have a bigger apartment and tons of tempting wall space and about 18 posters and i was loathe to hang them all together but now you've inspired me!

She lives in Park Slope! Right near me!

by the way, i just bought The Complete Robuchon - a French cookbook. And he advises against the colored Le Creuset enameled Dutch ovens and cookwear.

They can chip and it will get in your food and poison you.

So much for the mock French country style kitchens of Brooklyn generously stocked with Le Creuset.

i prefer the "before" - it's sort of understated and elegant (minus the strewn clothing everywhere, but that's life intervening). the "after" looks a bit contrived, as though Cute Adolescence Pictured by a Mother were recreated for a sitcom set.

i love it. it's very tasteful, but not boring, stylish but not sterile. there's a kind of spontaneity and warmth and it makes me curious about the person who lives there.

seems to be filled with usable and/or beautiful things.

how mean of everyone! i mean i have seen some places that are REALLY "ikea" and i don't like that, and i've seen some that are REALLY "dwr" and they are no better, believe me.

So I actually saw the comments before I looked at the pictures and then I expected something "Really Ikea." IT'S SO NOT!!

Very pretty - nice use of space, shape, color.

I haven't been to ikea in about 5 yrs, so maybe they are making some very great stuff these days if your apartment is "so ikea." your place makes me want to go!

what is more soulless than a kindle? i just can't bring myself to believe that this will sell.