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They can't take the tub apart instead?


Apartment Therapy New York | Update Our Bathroom Around This Corner Tub? Good Questions
10/2/09 9:37 AM

"Our boyfriend"?


Apartment Therapy Los Angeles | Your Out of Place Decor Items Austin
8/28/09 8:22 AM

They are def. not hoarder photos. There is empty storage space under the bed in the second one.


Apartment Therapy DC | Horrible House Guests
8/27/09 4:44 PM

"It's more obnoxious than shocking or offensive, I think."

Agreed, obnoxious is a better word.


Apartment Therapy Chicago | Fattened Eames Chairs
8/27/09 11:42 AM

"The artist plays on societal revulsion toward the overweight. A smarter artist might have challenged this bias rather than play into it."

This is exactly what is offensive to me. It's clever but that's all it is. The Thomas Kinkade comment made me laugh because the thing that annoys me about these chairs is not that the art is too challenging, it's that it's not challenging enough. Anyone can come up with something visually shocking that plays into prejudices that are culturally accepted. More difficult and also more powerful is the subtly unnerving effect that truly innovative art often has.


Apartment Therapy Chicago | Fattened Eames Chairs
8/26/09 9:48 PM

The thing is, anorexia is a disease of affluence, whereas obesity is not really a disease in its own right (sometimes it coincides with disease, sometimes it doesn't) nor is it particularly related to affluence, at least in industrialized nations. Conflating obesity with negative character traits like greed over-consumption is what is so offensive about this. I don't think it was accidental that expensive, trendy chairs were chosen for this project.

By the way, obesity is an explicitly-stated reference:

"Mark wanted to allude to the ideas of global obesity and consumption along with the potential cooperation among artists, designers, scientists and manufacturers in order to address such issues."


Apartment Therapy Chicago | Fattened Eames Chairs
8/26/09 4:34 PM

So what is the comment? That fat people are useless... you know, since humans are furniture? I think this is disgusting. The last thing the world needs is a new, clever way to mock obesity.


Apartment Therapy Chicago | Fattened Eames Chairs
8/26/09 1:16 PM

That "be safe" thing makes it seem like Robert Pattinson is watching over you, making sure you remember to use a condom.


Apartment Therapy Los Angeles | Um, What? Twilight Themed Decor
8/24/09 11:23 AM

Giant photo of a smiling Kurt Cobain, with the words "I hate myself and I want to die" underneath. First poster I ever purchased for myself. It was up on the wall for most of my adolescence.


Apartment Therapy Los Angeles | Um, What? Twilight Themed Decor
8/24/09 11:22 AM

Once a week on Shabbat, and for special occassions/entertaining.


Apartment Therapy Boston | Survey: Do You Use Your Wedding China?
8/19/09 1:59 PM

I love the idea of the weird table for a gyno office.

The skin rug reminded me simultaneously of Silence of the Lambs and The Female Eunuch.


Apartment Therapy Chicago | WTF? Designs We're Not Sure We Could Live With
8/18/09 1:03 PM

Those lights above the bed are pretty, but they seem like they might be annoying when one is actually in the bed, no?


Apartment Therapy Chicago | Before After: A Simplifed and Modernized Bedroom
8/13/09 7:46 PM

LITERALLY almost melted your faces right off? Was it by any chance a radiation leak?


Apartment Therapy Chicago | The Loft Disaster
8/13/09 7:45 PM

Am I the only one who was immediately reminded of Vienna's Holocaust memorial?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judenplatz_Holocaust_Memorial


Apartment Therapy New York | Bookshelf Display: Book Spines Turned In
8/11/09 9:30 PM