April 24, 2008
I generally ignore the Thursday Home & Garden section of the Times–I have an appreciation of good interior design, but when it comes to my own home, “decorating” means straightening the magazines on the coffee table and hanging a few pictures. But today this photo caught my eye:
This is from some designer showcase thing happening on the Upper East Side. At first I thought it was some wacky retro wallpaper (you children of the 70s will surely remember the shiny wallpaper that sometimes showed up in bathrooms), but then realized it’s the tops of tin cans. Creative! Of course, the acoustics must be dreadful, and woe betide anyone who leans up against that wall, but still. It’s cool to see something so DIY make it into a show house that’s probably otherwise filled with prohibitively expensive “premium” materials.
April 24, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Ditto on decorating for me. Although I do have bookish design product in the works…. The wall is not my taste, but I definitely appreciate the designer’s creativity in using, what I would hope would have ended up being recycled, lids. I rarely watch Trading Spaces anymore, actually I stopped quite a few years ago after they got all these horrible new designers, but seeing those lids on the walls reminds me of crazy Hilde designs.
May 2, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Found you through your post on Stephanies….gads..I haven’t thought about the shiny wallpaper thing in years. I think I had it in one of my bathrooms. yech!
May 3, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Ha–yeah, the 70s wallpaper was the first thing that came to mind. Now that midcentury modern is completely played out, watch out for a return of late 70s-early 80s styles.