18.3.06

Design of the Times - Boomers At 60 - MSNBC.com

Design of the Times -
a great article by Dorothy Kalins (former editor of Metropolitan Home, now executive editor of Newsweek) that tells the story of Modern Design from the personal point of view of a witness and participant:
"Baby boomers wore their passions on their sleeves—and on their walls and everything else they touched. How a generation of style shapers left their mark."
"...a generation rabid to leave our marks on our space, stripping away stuffy architectural ornament, painting over history with the optimistic primary colors of our own high expectations."
"As the '70s trended more toward tech and modernist minimalism, the real danger of all such movements arose: that in opposing old doctrines we'd created new ones that were just as confining. ..Where was the soul in all this superslick style?...All those decades spent obliterating history doomed us to repeat it...Suddenly, furniture couldn't be too rich or too fat"
"The '90s marked the end of a defining style for boomers. They not so much aged as marinated; confidence grew with experience. The best furnishings no longer languished behind the closed doors of elite design centers, access forbidden to mere mortals without a designer or an architect, as if we didn't have eyeballs good enough."
"Just as you can wear pretty much what you feel like these days, homes can have multiple personalities. Almost anything goes now. By the mid-2000s, boomers had melted into the culture... Some of the old baggage did travel along with us. But you can no longer tell who we are just by peeking into our living rooms."
It somehow makes us, who are not witnesses of this history - a part of it, help us understand it better.

To read the whole article, go here:
Design of the Times - Boomers At 60 - MSNBC.com

Една много интересна статия от Дороти Калинс - бивш редактор на сп. Metropolitan Home, сега изпълнителен редактор на Newsweek, в която можем да прочетем за историята на Модерния дизайн, разказана от първо лице.

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