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You're kidding me - people don't like the Montreal Olympics graphics? They're the paragon of good design! (Plus beavers are everywhere - venture a few minutes outside Vancouver and there they are. Not that this is really relevant - the whole country was semi-founded on the beaver pelt trade.) The Montreal Olympics are considered one of the best Olympics ever in terms of design.
http://blog.ounodesign.com/2008/11/18/official-montreal-76-olympics-poster-that-would-never-pass-a-committee-now/
PS thanks for featuring my quilt...

I agree. Platform beds don't need boxprings. They're designed to support just the mattress... If you don't find a mattress alone comfortable enough, a better solution might be to add a waffle foam top - it's incredibly comfortable, like sleeping on a cloud, and that's why it's used in care homes... and it's very thin. I have to get a slightly bigger fitted sheet for the mattress/wafflefoam combo - the kind for fat mattesses - but the single fatter mattress looks a lot better than a mattress on top of a box spring. If you want a tall bed, then I'd sell the platform.

Fantastique! This place just has it.

PS Why do so many commentators seem to equate personality and creativity with lots of knickknacks and paintings? The shape and materials of this house ARE imaginative design. And the maker's contribution to the broader public discussion about living in smaller spaces has been invaluable. This living space absolutely qualifies for this competition in my view, much more than some posh, relatively generic 800 sq ft apt. And I love this aesthetic: warm, soothing, simple. (Preferably not attached to a vehicle, though.)

Hey look! Jer found this simple application you can use to check NYT word frequency (but only for 2008):
http://tyn-search.appspot.com/

Thanks, modernguy and farmhousemoderne! We'll run your word suggestions above and see if we get any results. Green has multiple meanings so the results may be a bit skewed. More specific words or word pairs work better, but it's hard to find those in the design lexicon, which, as people have been pointing out, is full of common terms with multiple meanings (eg. modern, contemporary). The one thing this little project of ours has revealed is how much slippage there is in design terminology. If anyone has any more suggestions, post them here. PS "Chaise lounge!" I even hear people saying that in Canada, and French is one of our official languages. I just checked and chaise lounge is actually an accepted spelling in American dictionaries now, albeit as a folk etymology, but nevertheless I really doubt any NYT editor would allow it.