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Queen Victorian posted:Thread challenge: The kind of opulence I love is Beaux Arts turned up to eleven. Here's Hearst Castle, which owns: This one's giving me some major tonal dissonance. Like, you have all this fancy woodwork and ostentatious decoration...and then you have some couches that wouldn't look out of place at Grandma's. I assume that they were fancy in their day, but that style became easy to cheaply replicate once printed cloth became a thing, and that's why it's everywhere nowadays.
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It's crazy that Hearst Castle even looks as good as it does since it's all antiques and curios shipped in from all over the world and then Frankensteined into a mansion.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:This one's giving me some major tonal dissonance. Like, you have all this fancy woodwork and ostentatious decoration...and then you have some couches that wouldn't look out of place at Grandma's.  I bet you like this then 
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Okay, lemme actually do the thread challenge: I absolutely love Art Nouveau stuff.     I am admittedly not an expert on Art Nouveau or anything but all the different variations I've seen of it still scratch a really deep itch for me. PetraCore fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Jul 14, 2019 |
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Jul 14, 2019 17:55
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I was 100% on board until that last one. Yes! Yes! Yes! NO
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:I was 100% on board until that last one.
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I love Arts and Crafts/Craftsman bungalows.    This one is personal. I've posted it in this thread before, but my grandparents' old house. All different patterns and antiques and old materials and new materials. When I buy a house I am 100% painting a room in that peachy/pumpkiny color. It got sold in 2012 after they passed away and I miss it a lot.   
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Sort of off topic but what the hell do people do with all the extra pillows beds have in photographs?
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Argas posted:Sort of off topic but what the hell do people do with all the extra pillows beds have in photographs? They're just for decoration. They get put somewhere else (or thrown on the floor if you're me) at night.
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Jul 14, 2019 19:07
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PetraCore posted:I absolutely love Art Nouveau stuff. HelloIAmYourHeart posted:I love Arts and Crafts/Craftsman bungalows.  both of you
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Jul 14, 2019 19:36
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Is there a name yet for the design style of big block colour and such that you might find in the office of a company that's about to be bought out by Google? "Office industrial"?
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Jaded Burnout posted:They're just for decoration. They get put somewhere else (or thrown on the floor if you're me) at night. It's like working on a loading dock every evening and morning.
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PetraCore posted:I think it'd look better in a more fitting room but that's like a museum display. Still a drat nice bed. It looks like it needs to be in a movie set, like some kind of French surrealist fantasy inexplicably featuring Ron Pearlman. It's gorgeous but would look good in basically no bedroom ever.
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Jul 14, 2019 20:44
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Jaded Burnout posted:They're just for decoration. They get put somewhere else (or thrown on the floor if you're me) at night. You should stitch them all together into your favorite configuration so you can just remove them and replace them in one swell foop.
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Jul 14, 2019 20:49
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PetraCore posted:I think it'd look better in a more fitting room but that's like a museum display. Still a drat nice bed. Agreed. I think that room has several elements which make the bed look out of place. Even the side table looks odd with the wainscotting or whatever it's called being white and that high on the wall. I wonder what the back of the headboard looks like and if it might not have been really intended to be against a wall anyway.
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PetraCore posted:Okay, lemme actually do the thread challenge: Hell loving yes. Art Nouveau is my favorite. It's got kind of a chintzy reputation in the US because of Tiffany, but holy hell do I love it.   It's like and elven palace meets a space ship.
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The problem with Art Nouveau is I think going only a little Art Nouveau looks really weird. See that picture of the bed, where it and the furniture around it are all AN pieces but it still looks weird and out of place. I'm sure there's a way to pull of AN elements in a cohesive way without going full space elf treeship but I don't think I'd be good at that.
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Jul 14, 2019 22:50
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plz rename thread challenge: post your favorite proletariat suppression decor
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Kyoto is full of art-deco era buildings. Public bathhouse in Kyoto. http://why.kyoto/jp/blog/12/15857 Rakuza Guesthouse in Kyoto. http://rakuza.gh-project.com/e/photo.html Searching Taisho Roman "大正ロマン" brings up lots of interiors like this
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Jul 14, 2019 23:42
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NGL this looks like an English chain pub/eatery with added cherry blossom and ceiling... ... wooden squares? I think it's the double doors and the carpeted stairs leading to a dark wooden floor that just say "you're at a two for one, mate".
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Jul 14, 2019 23:51
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More a testament to how well chain restaurants do their designing, tbh.
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PetraCore posted:The problem with Art Nouveau is I think going only a little Art Nouveau looks really weird. See that picture of the bed, where it and the furniture around it are all AN pieces but it still looks weird and out of place. The trick with a lot of wilder pieces is to either frame in some way so your brain isn't trying to mesh it into the rest of the decor, or have an eclectic enough style that it all kind of balances out. The modern take on it tends to go for deliberate contrasts by placing art nouveau furniture in classical or modern rooms where it can be a real center piece.  The ornate columns and curving dark wood of the table and chairs stand out against the white walls and the straight lines of the molding. peanut posted:Kyoto is full of art-deco era buildings. Is it actually considered art deco in Japan? I know the modernist movement in Europe was set off by the opening of Japan and the influence of Japanese art and style. How did the influx of European esthetic play out in Japan back then?
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Jul 15, 2019 00:07
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Youth Decay posted:Thread challenge: this 9.754sf mansion in Baltimore built in 1849 That's gorgeous, and Mt. Vernon is a pretty nice area.
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Youth Decay posted:Thread challenge: this 9.754sf mansion in Baltimore built in 1849
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PetraCore posted:The entire house is nice but this is the picture that really wowed me. All that natural light is gorgeous. I'd wanna get actual plants in there, not just what I assume are decorative fake plants. Also, look at that rug. It's undoubtedly hand loomed and also undoubtedly made for exactly that room. How do you even get something like that done? Call India or Turkey and go "hey, I have a commission!"
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Motronic posted:Also, look at that rug. It's undoubtedly hand loomed and also undoubtedly made for exactly that room. How do you even get something like that done? Call India or Turkey and go "hey, I have a commission!" That's tiling, not a rug.
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Youth Decay posted:That's tiling, not a rug. Okay, zooming in.......yep. That's even better.
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ntan1 posted:That's a lot of very old style color palate for an entirely custom house. It's a fairly faithful Mid-Century revival aesthetic. Hope this helps
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there wolf posted:Is it actually considered art deco in Japan? I know the modernist movement in Europe was set off by the opening of Japan and the influence of Japanese art and style. How did the influx of European esthetic play out in Japan back then? The phrase exists in Japanese, mostly as an architectural style that has blurred in modern times. It's all wood "pub" look or marble "hotel" look. Former prince residence turned into an art museum. https://www.teien-art-museum.ne.jp/exhibition/150718-0923_artdeco.html Illustrator museum with poor website. http://www.kasho.org/bijutsukan.htm
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Motronic posted:Also, look at that rug. It's undoubtedly hand loomed and also undoubtedly made for exactly that room. How do you even get something like that done? Call India or Turkey and go "hey, I have a commission!" You would just call up a rug maker and put in a custom order. Costs a gently caress ton as you can imagine. I once stayed at a b&b that had a three-story stairwell and a single rug wound up the whole thing. The owner said after buying the house, it was the most expensive part of the renovation.
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there wolf posted:The owner said after buying the house, it was the most expensive part of the renovation. JFC, I guess I'm not at all surprised at that. It's just such a foreign concept to me to commission something (anything at all) especially on that scale. I suppose I'm thinking about this because I just went through the search for rugs the new house and never once in my mind was "hey, let's just get someone to make what I want" because that just seems like insane "if you have to ask you can't afford it" kinda yacht money.
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My friend recently got a job as a pro seamstress and her shop mostly reupholster boatthings. It's ridiculous.
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peanut posted:My friend recently got a job as a pro seamstress and her shop mostly reupholster boatthings. It's ridiculous. This seems like a very good line of work, along with making horsethings.
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This thread challenge is going to kill me. My brain can't even handle all this maximalism
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Is Gaudí cheating for the thread challenge? Because
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gschmidl posted:Is Gaudí cheating for the thread challenge? Because Is that where the word "gaudy" came from?
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:This one's giving me some major tonal dissonance. Like, you have all this fancy woodwork and ostentatious decoration...and then you have some couches that wouldn't look out of place at Grandma's. That fabric is crazy expensive. It's what your grandma's sofa's upholstery was made cheaply to mimic. e: The pattern is woven, not printed. ee: I mean, I'm assuming. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Jul 15, 2019 |
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I was at a working woollen mill recently, with their original in-the-basement-hydroelectric-plant powered chain programmable looms, still cranking out jacquard woven wool rugs up to 4.5m wide. They'll happily make whatever you wanted if you work with their designer/loom programmer, I can imagine prices are thousands per metre considering the hundreds per metre they were charging for their standard tapestry fabrics.
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