"Maitland Smith": Post-Modern Design Nightmares
What sort of person owns a "jewelry box" like this? What sort of home could hold such an object? Make sense of it? give it context or meaning? It only really makes sense in a big empty house, where the objects can function like art in a gallery. Elevated by the clutter-free space around them.
"Maitland Smith": two little words that are the search key to a whole universe of forgotten design horrors and delights. "Memphis Design" gets more attention. "Maitland Smith" is the stuffy cousin.
Don't worry they aren't real. But, does that make it that much better? You didn't inherit a real pair from your robber baron grandfather, but with these you could say. "If killing endangered species weren't as out of style as they are... you know I totally would."
It's so whimsical... and yet classic.
Unapologetically post modern, an ascendent symbol of 1980s excess. These bits of furniture and bric-a-brac defined an era. Or maybe an error.
These rooms feel like places I've been. Places where I don't belong.
You've seen this kind of thing before haven't you?
Remember the house in the move Beetlejuice? The strange gaudy, clearly expensive, "whimsical," taste of that family? That's Maitland. It's those coffee tables that look like a huge stack of books. Because you are a refined intellectual but you have a sense of humor.
Yes, this table is covered in little marble tiles. It's incredibly heavy, cold to the touch, impractical, a mockery of the antique writing desk it imitates. But, it's also fascinating. An object from another world.
I don't know why I have such an intense reaction to this stuff. I'm attracted to it but also very deeply repulsed. It has echos of the Victorian with all their fascination with the artificial and the imitation. But, it also screams MONEY in all the worst ways.
Is it just me? What do you feel when you look at this stuff?
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there is so much joy in discovering a blog you identify with on a spiritual level. let me just scroll through ur posts for 5 hours and reblog all of them and also i just found u but i’m already in love w u
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Thinkint about dr chalk tweets. Not even judt their art. But like. Their theories and speculations too. They've permanently altered my view of Victor foreever and I think r the reason I even became so ill about him lmao
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They've got their priorities in order. After all, what could be more important than taking a nap in the sunlight on the first warm day of spring?
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Stop being shy, Brainy 😌
I probably won't bring the drawing to mind, but I'll show you the sketch anyway.
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how do i not feel disheartened over my grades not being good despite doing my best. how do i get motivation to write this essay when i feel like i'll never be able to get my grade up and never be able to qualify for the masters program i want because of it. i feel so hopeless and overwhelmed
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wish i knew how abnormal my gait was aside from the dynamic knee valgus n "wide base of support" shit like. i just hate not knowing what is going on exactly. i was consciously paying attention to how i moved my legs when the lady at PT asked me to walk for her but 99% of the time i'm not doing that and the way i normally walk feels wobbly and inefficient and wrong unless my meds are kicking in and giving me a good amount of energy or something. idk. if anyone notices it's probably something most people write off as tiredness or laziness, or uh, a less generous term than "neurodevelopmentally disabled." but i was thinking about it because, like, walking is only painful for me if shit's getting triggered, but even if it's not painful it's virtually always uncomfortable and unpleasant, and that prob has to do with the hypotonia and how it affects coordination and making active (or passive) usage of my muscles overall inefficient so it's. bad. it feels bad. and it's possibly why they said "patient may benefit from orthotics for neutral knee/ankle/foot alignment." i think i move my legs wrong.
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