For those keeping score at home it’s 2-0 napoleon and the autistic teenager turned out to be an Indian phone scammer.

Now let’s get back to posting pictures of homes we will never live in.

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soulless. derivative. worst of all, boring.

>>18464392 (OP)
>For those keeping score at home
Keeping score is just about the only thing more pathetic than taking part.
>and the autistic teenager
I thought I was a schizophrenic? Or DOD? Now it's autism? I'm collecting these disorders like Pokemon. Maybe you just don't like me? How very jewish of you, handing out diagnoses like candy. Guess that's why they call it a diag-NOSE-s.
>turned out to be an Indian phone scammer.
Where did that come from again? Are you projecting? Maybe my schizophrenia rubbed off on you. Or is this just a roundabout way of getting me to send you pictures? Not happening. I'm bi-curious at best.

>>18465117
Different angle

I never fancied wood with red tone but seeing FLW's use of it might have changed my mind. Is this cherry? I've seen wood as lightly toned as
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be labelled cherry, but the red here is more intense. Which is it?

Most of the architects and designers mentioned often among enthusiasts are known for doing projects of a massive scale and scope, much like how fashion designers are usually known for their most extravagant runway pieces. At times it seems as though these over the top designs are motivated by a collective need to justify the valuation of their respective art forms. It has a tendency to happen in any industry, artistic or not. It even happens in human behavior. People turn themselves into products marketed for mass appeal, or exclusive high society consumption(as our good friend Napoleon?), or even display as repellant on purpose(as I've done in kind to criticism that I found lazy and rude).
On the high end of this spectrum of industrialized expression there are art pieces so grand in concept that they rarely escape the artists mind to see the light of day, or classical works we still struggle to replicate. Works such as these can inspire much critique from the enthusiast and uninitiated alike. Wasteful, ill conceived, gaudy, garish, made simply to prop up the artists ego. Made simply to prop up god, or capital. Is there a difference at this stage? At the low end? "Comedian", 'Fountain", works that provoke simply by their being called art, that force their way into the halls of luxury often simply to make a mockery of the very concept of "high art". The artistic gourmand looks at the fans of these works and accuses them of jealousy. They shrug in agreement as they light up a molotov. 1/2

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I suppose I'm a bit tired of these exaggerated performances of extremity. These attempts at one-upmanship in either direction. Both personally and in terms of my artistic perusal. To quote Frank Lloyd Wright
"We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means."
I think we can all agree he was more prescient than he could've possibly known. The corporatization of the internet has turned the entire worlds engagement away from simplicity and toward the far extremes at every level, from the artistic to the political. If I had to think of an artist that lands in the middle ground, that is, not necessarily being made simply for mass appeal, but engaging with a medium for it's own sake? I would be remiss to not mention Rothko. He's oft mentioned as an example of that low end "modern" art that doesn't deserve the praise and attention it gets, but I've always seen him as an example of perfected simplicity. He's not making something like "Piss Christ" to shock you, or a Thomas Kinkade to make easy money, or a Jeff Koons to do a little bit of everything. I think the sort of critique that lumps him in with any of these says more about the critic than the work.
With that said, to any thread watchers out there, tell me who I'm missing out on in that regard. Architects and designers that provoke through simplicity or elevate the expected. Not necessarily to be shock or impress, but to engage with the medium as authentically as they are able. If you're willing to critique what I've written here in a respectful way, I'd also welcome your thoughts. Otherwise, it's been educational.

>>18464392 (OP)
>the autistic teenager turned out to be an Indian phone scammer.
Many such cases.

>>18465117
>i'm collecting these disorders like pokemon
Welcome to the club. But as you said, when you're handing them out like candy yourself...
>>18465169
>much like how fashion designers are usually known for their most extravagant runway pieces
This is not true anymore because no one is exclusively consuming fashion content through runways, meaning that the pieces most commonly associated with designers over the last thirty years are less and less their most extravagant runway pieces and increasingly items consumers have had hammered into their brain through repeated transmission on social media, which also tend to be accessible, and unremarkable. This, plus the increase in consumers buying designer fashion in North America and Europe from the rise of online marketplaces like Vestiaire, Grailed, and Poshmark, has radically changed the relationship dynamic between a fashion designer and their audience. Not to get too into the weeds on fashion, but this issue remains the case in architecture and industrial design (for lack of a better overarching term), as the barrier to entry is significantly higher than in fashion. Presumably, this barrier will last longer despite the internet's best attempts, and perhaps even grow as more and more people are locked out of ownership.
>People turn themselves into products
Speak for yourself, I post a bit of everything.
>The artistic gourmand looks at the fans of these works and accuses them of jealousy.
Comedian, sure. Fountain... not so sure. I've never met anyone who didn't like Fountain or deny its brilliance, except for those who reject modernism wholesale (and group it in with contemporary art lol). You may have to extrapolate on this 'artistic gourmand' character.
>Architects and designers that provoke through simplicity or elevate the expected.
I mean the first who comes to mind is Judd, especially given your mention of Rothko and the parallels with Rothko's own attempts at architecture, but hardly an epiphany here.

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You are eminently concerned with the theoretical, cultural, conceptual etc, but are in a place that has really only ever been useful for practical information and shitposting. I suppose my question for you would be, seeing as you know 4chan is dying, 4chan is not a particularly useful place for genuine discussion etc etc, what are you trying to get out of this line of inquiry? Presumably, any name, another anon can come up with you're already familiar with. What's the point?

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You don't discuss this stuff with people in real life, do you?

see you all next week.
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lmfao

>>18465417
About fashion, I would hope it's obvious that my exposure to the field is pretty limited, considering the circumstances. I have an impression from my ventures into it based on my own personal interests, but It's not a particular passion. I don't lump myself in with the cynics that dismiss it, but I've made it all too clear that I've got some hang-ups around high class things that I think are lacking in substance. I'm not aware of all the goings on, so you may be right.
>Speak for yourself, I post a bit of everything.
It's inherent in the nature of the forum. Most anons on /fa/ are constantly trying to signal class and sophistication while acting like a bunch of vicious toddlers. Its' simultaneously haughty and elitist, yet utterly repugnant and immature.
>except for those who reject modernism wholesale
There is a particular kind that think they are quite clever for dismissing pieces that represent a break from a very old ideal. They're concerned with upholding whatever classical work represents "real art". They are the new guard busting into the art world to dismiss anything that doesn't meet their preconceived notions of class and sophistication. I find it unfortunate that they have support from a lot of old jaded cynics that I already found myself agreeing with more often than I'd like. Perhaps I lumped you in with these types unfairly.
>hardly an epiphany here.
I still appreciate any suggestions, especially as living architects and designers are concerned. I'm young, I'm a layman, and I've got little formal education on the topic. It's been a sort of passive interest of mine for a while, but I'm probably missing out on some of what many would consider elementary.
>>18465420
Trying to restore whatever amount of respectability I can to the discussion. Mostly just making up for rolling in the mud when critiqued. I don't think 4chan needs to be "above it", but I don't enjoy it's results.
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I wouldn't be caught dead here if I did.

>>18465750
>There is a particular kind that think they are quite clever for dismissing pieces that represent a break from a very old ideal.
I meant the proudly ignorant/reactionary types who don't have any familiarity with art at all, and thinks it ought to be le return to trvd dogshit. I don't think those guys are proud of being clever, they're proud of calling a spade a spade. Pride in their lack of sophistication as they see knowing about this stuff as some kind of delusion or so on etc etc etc.
Personally, I love pop art, American modernism, etc, think it's brilliant, keep thinking I'll pull the trigger on a Rauschenberg one of these days, but the shipping from these auction houses is complete murder.
In terms of suggestions, I find the idea of elevated simplicity in contemporary design very middling myself.
When I was working at the design firm, we were partners with many of these types, doing a kind of intense craftsmanship that was neither overly ornate nor simple, but rather unadorned, obsessed with materiality. However, much of it was so eh, didn't do much for me.
Carl Aubock
Lobmeyr
Glas Italia
Konstanin Gricic
Phillipe Moulin
Sabine Marcellis
Zeitraum
Thonet(they have contemporary designs)
Van Rossum
Etel(seem to own most of the rights to Neimeyer's work these days)
Zanat
Christophe Delcourt(some of his work is brilliant, but completely inaccessible price wise)
Bieke Castelyn(notable for those rounded plaster tables that were quite trendy a a few years ago and everyone copied)
CEA
and the list goes on, it's tricky because every one of these brands at Salone or whatever love to tell you how much they love materiality, and medium, and they're all sort of in that middling quiet luxury sphere so the work is 'simple' but, also terribly boring a lot of the time.
Gorgeous sinuous boucle couch that costs 40,000 euros? They have you covered, but its the same couch you've seen a billion times before in every mooodboard you know.

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>>18465759
>I wouldn't be caught dead here if I did.
You'd be surprised how many /fa/ggots are successful in the creative fields.
A mumber of people here have gone on to have successful careers in the fashion industry or adjacent to. A good friend of mine from here is now a director at a very famous London gallery for example.

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I guess it's an easy assumption to make. I'd never have expected professional networking to happen on a platform like 4chan. Surely nobody that spends their time on this backwater hellhole of a website is doing so for sane reasons? Maybe sometimes they are. I mean hell, most discord servers are just as bad with the added drama that comes with no anonymity, and yet it's probably the main way young people are networking today. Maybe I should be less of an isolationist, but I've got thin skin and a vicious streak of my own.
>>18465759
I am a sucker for a some of these desu, but I can see your point. What do you find particularly compelling? You mentioned pop art and American modernism? Anything in particular?

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More social than professional networking. A funny one was the 'super skinny' male slp model from the FW2013 show that was controversial for being so emaciated-looking, used to post on here. Was an art history major at the University of Glasgow.
As for the stuff I liked, from the list I mentioned
Glas Italia has worked with Tokujin Yoshioka, who designed a number of retail stores for Issey Miyake in the 1990s and early 2000s. I would call his work tastefully optimistic (as opposed to the kitschy pop design typically associated with Y2K), and an outgrowth of many of the trends in Japanese design in the 1980s and into the 90s. He works primarily with glass so the connection from Shiro Kuramata is pretty obvious(especially considering Kuramata's work with Glas Italia), but also does a lot of textured glass works and purity of form blah blah blah so some parallels with Sou Fujimoto, Tadao Ando, Toyo Ito etc and general trends present in that era of Japanese design.
For art, I've mentioned Judd and Marfa frequently in these threads, and that's because I've a friend who invited me down to Chinati last spring and gave me the whole rundown of Judd's work, as well as that of Flavin, Chamberlain, Irwin, etc. What was really impressed upon me there was the almost mechanical repetition of works at Chinati. It's everywhere, and perhaps more obvious in works that don't seem to relate to the other pieces, such as John Wesley's paintings. However, most of the pieces are overt in their repetition of a central motif or a variation on it, like a window. It all sorts of work together like a watch(a sundial perhaps...) or something, it's really magical.
From Chamberlain, there is a straight line to people like JG Ballard, and accelerationism, speed(So people like Virilio) etc, but also backwards towards films like Godard's Weekend. So i guess what i like most about Chinati is the arrangement of disparate elements into a coherent whole in a cleverly understated way.

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kitschy and ugly and beautiful

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I especially like the BDSM duck

>>18465569
How do i find a throw blanket // bed cover like this?

>>18467162
I found some sort of similar designs under the search term "traditional Japanese patterned blanket" and variations, but authentic vintage is not quite the same. Closest match I can think of are persian rug designs. You can find these designs applied to blankets, but it's not common, as authentic blankets usually have more plain/textured designs than the rugs. The quality is often questionable as well, as these designs are often just applied to otherwise generic mass produced blankets. My eye isn't the sharpest for this sort of thing, but the one in the image looks like it might be of questionable quality itself.

i like these threads a lot more when it's not just one autistic anon treating it like his personal pinterest board dumping a hundred "inspo" pictures with zerocommentary or two retards that have been having an argument since the last thread from a week ago.

>>18467782
When was that? Sounds like a good time.

>>18467782
be the change you want to see in the world you whiny faggot

>>18467162
Herati and Bidjar patterns are a decent approximation. The one in the image is a Japanese antique, so you're probably not going to find a 1:1 one for less than a few grand.

great thread always my favorite.

>>18465635
That door is amazing.

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you're welcome anon

>>18469792
Great thread boys

some context for these pics would be nice; i find some of the more creative and less western stuff very appealing in the way that it builds texture by using cheaper or even repurposed materials, the use of color is beautiful also, soulful - where are they from though ?
less interested in the mid century US type stuff - it's a bore tho some of the artwork is nice.

>>18470108
>Since 1981 The World of Interiors has documented the rich diversity of ways in which we live, showcasing the stylish and the unexpected as well as applauding individuality. Published monthly in print and daily on its website and digital platforms, The World of Interiors is a global title celebrating originality in design, decorating, arts and culture. After 40 years, it continues to surprise and inspire.

Generally I find World of Interiors skews European, specifically British in it's sensibilities and taste. Skews extremely bourgeois almost aristocratic and highlights extremely unique, original and aspirational living spaces in all aspects. Very much a rebuke to those comments in the previous two threads about 'putting furniture in a room like lipstick on a pig'. They really only highlight 'total' design spaces.

Personally I like it because as someone who has spent the last 10+ years consuming mass produced 'designer' goods and objects in graphic, industrial, fashion, media etc design and has a pretty well rounded appreciation of that sort of stuff, world of interiors is the exact opposite where nearly everything is bespoke, personalized, antique, folk, 1:1, etc. Basically, it showcases these gorgeous complete rooms that you cannot simply go out and buy like anyone else. Not just because of rarity, expensive, time spent and so on but a combination of all these factors(if you had enough money you could raid the auctions, but even then it would take months and months to complete a space if you had unlimited funds). They are lived-in, built up slowly and created over long periods of time unlike a lot of the 'soulless' rooms that other anon was going on about and they are a strong reflection of their owner's tastes, sensibilities and personalities, even if they tend to be disgustingly expensive and exclusive.

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I found the magazine through following stephan mann's adventures renovating an English cottage and how he's building every part of the interior himself from scratch, basically, and it struck me as a very admirable way of creating a living space.

One criticism in the previous thread was roughly ' if you don't live in an architecturally significant space, then it's still a cope' following from the cookie-cutter design shop comments. But this misunderstands the design shop aesthetic criticism, because it's not 'owning design shop items is bad' it's that consuming them animalistically, and overly prescribed/rigidly to the point that's ALL you own. You haven't actually designed the living space, but merely 'filled it with stuff' is a cope for not being able to design a proper living space(because the owner can't due to the rental agreement, they cant' afford their own space, they lack the taste to design a proper space, they are engaging in conspicuous consumption to gain social recognition from friends/family/the internet whatever, defaulting to a preapproved and 'safe' interior aesthetic because you're ignorant etc etc etc etc etc). World of Interiors(and Stephan Mann's home) also show that this 'logical conclusion' of 'exclusively owning design shop junk is cope' is untrue because it's entirely possible and common for 'creatives'(for lack of a better term) to design holistic(lol) living spaces that reflect their tastes, needs, and sensibilities that is both aesthetically pleasing and authentic, beyond just collecting items like the wassily because you saw them in a taschen book, or worse on a fashiontok video.

It's like dressing well. It's easy to get 80% of the way there by copying other people's templates (and most people are content with this, hence all the designshop apartments you see on IG lol), but to achieve something truly individual and unique takes months to years in fashion and years to decades in interiors.

>>18471868
When I was in Marfa, I stayed in one of the converted army barracks at Chinati. And it featured some Judd-designed stuff, but mostly was filled with vernacular Mexican furniture built by local carpenters in town, and that stuff, that had been worn and used and abused by previous interns, and guests, it was not expensive stuff like a lot of what you'll see in WoI, but it was as beautiful as any of the Judd designed works on site. Really charming and it blended well with space.
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And you see bits of that relationship between this ultra high-end 'designed' and 'produced' stuff with what is basically just folk design in World of Interiors. In the image I replied to you have what is basically a french country table with some eclectic but pretty simple chairs, next to custom cabinets with porcelain i imagine is worth a fortune, and then of course the art pouring out of the space.
And while recreating a room like this is impossible for nearly all of us in these threads, there are details and ideas you can pull, inspiration, and so on.

For example, a friend has been urging me to buy a Koons plate, and 'display it' within one of my cabinets so whenever I go to serve dinner and grab my plates, it would be visible, which is a very simple and funny idea that can be drawn back seeing stuff like this. Eventually, after another 5-10 years, I could collect enough Royal Copenhagen, Delft Tiles, Sarreguemines, etc, etc, etc, to just have something similar to what's in this image.

Like I said before, this stuff is aspirational and something to build toward while refining your individual taste and preferences, and the end you don't just have a cabinet of random shit, but purposefully chosen and selected items you could probably give a lecture on if need be.

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>>18464392 (OP)
Why yes I did buy all of target how could you tell?

>>18473386
good post

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>>18473386
They could've sourced every piece thrifting junk and it would still have more personality than this prepackaged cookie cutter crap. This is the interior design McMansion.

On a different note I've been wondering, what sort of cars do you /fa/ggots drive? I always hear design obsessives bemoan function>form but I can't imagine all these people are driving around in custom designed vehicles, unless cybertruck wraps or gay hipster unicycles count.

>>18474973
shut up autismo

>>18475037
>drives a shitbox

>>18475189
i use robot taxis actually

>>18475445
That is so much worse.

bot thread

>>18475528
Botfly thread? Can we get a good botfly thread going?

>>18474973
I drive a subaru

>>18465834
You seem to know about Japanese stuff, so I have a question.
I moved here for work and will likely be here for at least a decade, probably more. Might die here.

So I am looking to build a place on a ~$3m budget. But every architect I've met so far is a Tadao Ando wannabe. Their portfolio is raw-concrete central which I find horrendous for a home. I've looked in AD, Dezeen, Archdaily and ofc local architecture/house building magazines. And everything I have seen so far is either a concrete blockhouse or some low-effort tiny home with shitty quirks. It's all so uninspired.

What are some good contemporary Japanese architects that I should look up?

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here = Japan if that wasn't clear from the post

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>Carl Aubock
>Lobmeyr
>Glas Italia
>Konstanin Gricic
>Phillipe Moulin
>Sabine Marcellis
>Zeitraum
>Thonet(they have contemporary designs)
>Van Rossum
>Etel(seem to own most of the rights to Neimeyer's work these days)
>Zanat
>Christophe Delcourt(some of his work is brilliant, but completely inaccessible price wise)
>Bieke Castelyn(notable for those rounded plaster tables that were quite trendy a a few years ago and everyone copied)
>CEA
Wow. It's all crap.

>>18475854
So what's good then, Mr. taste maker?

>>18475870
A table saw, a circular saw, a lathe, a cnc router, a planer, pocket hole jigs, drill, impact driver, circular sander, planer, hand planers, a jigsaw, a hand router, clamps, glue, a nailgun, hand saws, and cans of oil, stain, and eurothane coat. If you want metal you will want a plasma cutter, angle grinder, tabletop belt sander, and a mig welder.

went to the home and garden tour in my city's fancy people neighborhood today and i dont know why but clear-coat wood cabinets and trim (that all comes from the same tree) seems to be the hip new meme.

>>18476073
post one furniture you made.

>>18476182
I cant afford those tools! I haven't made furniture since I was in 3d drafting in hs and had access to the $100,000 cnc table.

>>18475854
0/10 bait

How the fuck is the image limit already reached?

>>18476180
Is this the next stage of the "organic" wooden table trend? Why don't these people just move into a fucking log cabin already. You can't recreate nature in your suburban shitbox, and I don't know that you should really want to.
>>18476488
Didn't the first thread go to like 250?

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>>18476498
I hope y'all are ready.Cause this is where it starts, We're goin' back to the wood paneling in a few more years!

>>18476488
better question why the fuck is there an image limit on a fashion board

hotel room catalogue

>>18476523
People already do wood paneling

>>18477215
Drywall is for gay poorfags

A major key to a fashionable interior is warm lighting. I recommend amber lighting. You can make the style modern or retro and still make it work with that color scheme.

t. Amber mood accent lighting.

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start a new thread lads

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inessential

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>>18464912
with better chairs that those two on the left this would be so good

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pjphdRToYc

>>18465117
All the heritage press books and great books, the three volume Montagne is one of the only good books there. It's like Mar a Lago, what ignorant people think looks erudite.

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at least people are starting to realize that TVs in the living room at tacky

>>18465119
very original trilogy star wars

>>18465117
Looks like an old smelly Norwegian swingers basement

>>18479051
good call

>>18464914
This looks so uncomfortable.

>>18479395
You won't have class until you learn to sit in a church pew that digs into your spine.

>>18479007
Mar-a-Lago is extravagant for it's own sake. It's more like a Tom Ford, Vogue, or another fashion design book that says "I have no personality outside of buying designer things to impress people.". Funnily enough Trump actually has a Muhammad Ali tribute book in his penthouse. I like that choice. Whatever you think of his gaudy overwrought style, having that book on display does actually say something about him. It's not just some random thing he has no interest in beyond decorating to impress. Could be he didn't even pick it out though, so who knows.

>What's great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good.

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You know whats really fantastic about America is that completely upended the entire aristocratic order the europeans and asians had and basically a bunch of bourgeois yokels were able to recreate the universe in their image.

I was recently reading through on Soetsu Yanagi and the 'criticism' of his theory of mingei that claimed he was adapting or copying ideas from William Morris and Bernard Leach for a Japanese context, and infusing them with hypernationalist(one source anyway) and Buddhist(another source) ideals.

The whole thing was so funny to read because if it is true Soetsu Yanagi was ripping off Anglo ideals(the source of America), and regardless if it's false, the critic was adopting and recycling expressly American ideas (decolonization, critical race theory, and so on) in forming her criticism, and framing it. So, even when foreign art and design critics attempt to push back on their mental colonization against Anglos (of which Americans are the current torchbearers), they are forced to adopt their masters' tools, their theory, their praxis, and conceptualization of the world. It's so fucking funny and amazing that America has managed to do this. America is so pervasive, powerful, and omnipresent, it's hard to understate.

One guy posts all the images and the thread is filled with pseudo-intellectual babble. Unusable.

Guys, I just wanna know how to make my apartment look good enough to bring a girl over. Maybe make it look like I have my shit together but I can't quite afford that high end designer shit.

>>18480091
Make your place not look like shit with one (1) simple trick :
Frame your posters.
That alone is enough to make it seem like you have your shit together and aren't just sitting there waiting to get a better place once you're done with studies or a short contract.
The next step is removing all traces of Ikea from your home (except the Poang chair, Poag good, Poang fine, everybody gets a chair)

>>18480104
on that point: how do i understand which frame works with which poster/artwork? how do i get a feel for when to use passe-partout and when not? do i get the same frame for every piece of art that hangs on the same wall?

is that something everyone does by trial and error? are there rules? i've collected a little bit of art from friends and my parents but i'm a little lost on how to display it.

if there's some general advice or ressources that someone could share i'd be super grateful

>>18480091
>>18480104
Different anon, but same position. Only difference is that I'm at an age where I *should* have had my shit together. I did the degree but fucked up most of my mid/late 20s.

Any advice we on how to fake that?

>>18480436
Just color theory/materials. Your space's design should focus on around 3 base colors, a couple accent colors, and a few select material choices. As long as you haven't filled the space with random mismatched junk this should be fairly easy. Frames of the same color/material as other pieces throughout the room will give a cohesive look that registers even if one isn't paying attention, so color/material match the things that are in proximity. Black steel framed desk sitting near to the gallery wall? Get one in black. Have some wood or bronze framed furniture? Get one that's close to that color/material. It doesn't even have to be *exactly* the same, but it should appear so at a glance. I'd try not to crowd your walls with too much art. Depending on the size of the space, a couple pieces throughout and one actual gallery wall should suffice. You also want to avoid putting the frames too close together or too high up, these are common mistakes that usually look bad. I like asymmetry in the way I place my frames when using art that is more diverse, and symmetrical line-ups for pieces that are directly related. A good rule of thumb is to use only 2-3 art styles and 3 major colors in the art you choose, as matching these can help the pieces feel connected to the space. Don't be afraid to be specific to your interests, but avoid branded media stuff unless you really think it works(It probably doesn't). That applies to all of this advice, really. Almost any space could look nice if you've got a personal style, but if you need this advice you've probably still got some things to figure out in that regard. Honestly, a bunch of black frames are completely fine if you are hesitant to jump in and wing it. Also, If I were you, I wouldn't lurk these threads looking for tips. They're full of design /fa/ggots that are lost up their own asses. You'll get there eventually. "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate"

>>18480515
On how to fake an entire life just so you can get laid? Don't. Pussy alone isn't worth it, and any love that comes from that is tainted beyond repair. I mean, "I *should* have had my shit together"? What were you, born into a wealthy family that didn't abuse or neglect you? Get some perspective, buddy. If you are posting on an actual computer 90% of the world has it worse off than you by default. Go to therapy and try to figure out why you are neglecting your own future, or stop being dramatic and get a career of some kind. Learn an actual skill or lean into being a deadbeat hippy fuckup like your parents probably did.

what a pointless thread
next time don't spam it up before anyone can discuss anything

>>18480529
You okay man?

>>18480606
bmup

>>18465647
you ate up all the image replies

>>18465118
I've been to this one :D

>>18480436
>how do i understand which frame works with which poster/artwork? how do i get a feel for when to use passe-partout and when not? do i get the same frame for every piece of art that hangs on the same wall?
I'd post my room as an example but the spammer is here to make sure no one can show anything off. Oh well.
My pointers would be : you likely have a dominant colour or tone in your room. Maybe it's black, maybe it's white, maybe it's a specific woodgrain. After that, you have other colours that use this throughline to unify the room. Use that dominant colour for the frame.
In my case, I have white walls and wooden floors which I can't change, so I had to find another colour to use as a throughline and since I'm into stereo gear, I knew I'd have a bunch of black appliances no matter what and into book collecting which would mean a lot of either very light (which will match the white) or very dark exposed spines, so I picked black as the unifying colour for accents, hence looking for white or woodgrain furniture with black accents and using black frames for pictures and posters.
>tl;dr
>look at your walls and floor since you can't change them
>if there's a nice colour there, us that
>if not, pick a colour that you like and use a lot and don't mismatch

>poster frames
I guess if you're trying to elevate a college dorm. But if you're over 21, having your favorite star wars shit framed looks neckbeardy. The only thing on your wakes should be family photos, mirrors, and art (that you got from an actual artist not just what you bought at walmart)

>>18480669
I'm just tired of this redpill hustle culture bullshit. It's a culture of grift, and it is eating this generation alive. A bunch of traumatized narcissistic old fucks have convinced a whole generation that what they need to do just coming into their own, is pay *them* to learn how to be more like Patrick Bateman. /fa/ is basically a whole board of young men begging for advice and/or self harming so they can learn to be more of a sociopath cause they think if they don't meet all of these impossible standards than they should just fucking an hero. It's overdramatic bullshit that holds people down more than it lifts them up, and that shit is by design. How are these kids supposed to know themselves? How are they supposed to find real love and raise families when they've been doing anything they can to avoid dealing with their underlying issues? These young men are too busy beating themselves up over shit they can barely do anything about to enjoy their youth while it lasts. They are told to make money, look good, get taste and style, but god forbid they address anything internal. That's pussy shit. Just join Fight Club. Throw your life away for another mans ambition. God forbid they actually take care of or even care about themselves, as opposed to whatever fake persona they are putting on to peacock for a bunch of E-whores that are equally as fucked in the head as they are. The worst part is, this kind of abuse used to be directed at kids of wealthy Americans more than anyone, but in this modern shitheap it's trickled down to these kids that probably never even had a college fund. They're bullying each other over not having fucking Stanley cups. It's grotesque.
>>18479978
>>18479982
Case in point. America's Satan. It's all of the worst instincts in humanity masquerading as our best.

>>18481672
>getting filtered by warhol
lol pleb haha
>>18480606
don't tell me what to do faggot
>>18481017
sounds like you need to stop being a massive pussy
>>18481672
>I'm tired of mentally ill autists being gay and retarded
>proceeds to spend every waking moment of his summer surrounded by and engaging with mental ill autists who are gay and retarded
>turns out he's just another gay retard who isn't special

>>18481672
>the autistic teenager is iranian, not indian
close enough.

>>18481874
>tired of mentally ill autists being gay and retarded
Reductive to the point of absurdity.
>>18481876
You have to live here to hate it in this particular way. It's is like an abusive NPD psycho that we can't stand and yet can't bring ourselves to leave. Everyone that is politically engaged is just doubling down on an "I can fix her" mentality. The rednecks that tell you to leave if you don't like it are more right than they know.

>>18481988
Do you own any design objects, furniture, property, etc? or is this all hypothetical for you?

>>18482946
As if I'd actually share anything real with you pretentious dick measuring /fa/ggots. I am here to vent frustration! I am here to bloviate, commentate, annotate, explicate, and elucidate. As well as cause general disruption. I'd rather have you think I'm an Ethiopian catboy posting philosophical diatribes from a mud hut in the sweltering heart of Africa than be subjected to the disquieting sound of you desperately trying to suckle on your pitiable little microdick as you attempt to perform auto-féllation~, all the while throwing your freshly excreted monkey shits at the things I like. You want a dick measuring contest? Let's put it this way, my IVORY FUCKING TOWER absolutely DWARFS your teensy weensy little Napoleon midget-cock, and I'd CRAM your microscopic Lilliputian form into the fucking tin can where it belongs, were you EVER to have the misfortune of stepping to the towering Aryan colossus you dare to trifle with in real life. Also, not really. I think I've got a pallet of Supreme T-shirts in storage somewhere. Does that count?

>>18483054
Don't drink tons of coffee and post, kids. You might just find yourself filling the shoes of one Dr. Jekyll, turning into a Mr. Hyde that posts a modern day navy seal copypasta on an obscure part of a dying website. A website that resides within the farthest reaches of, The Twilight Zone™.

>>18481135
What is with using mirrors for lighting? Seems way too fussy for such a little difference. Is it cope for not having windows where you want them?

>>18483054
ok, you don't, explains a lot.

>>18483218
> Is it cope for not having windows where you want them?
yes obviously
>>18483054
>he thinks it's about having a dick measuring contest
Man you're so dumb

>>18483380
Awww. come on. Can you really blame me? When has it been anything *but* a dick measuring contest on /fa/? All the pithy critiques and petty argumentation any time someone posts something that didn't come out of a design magazine. What other purpose could it possibly serve? It's about bolstering your ego and justifying your choices.
>Look at these plebeians, look how they defile the very ideals of design with their tired Noguchi tables and knockoff Eames Chairs! The peasants. The rubes. The gall it must take to post in MY thread while not being one of the trendy design /fa/ggot elite. Pathetic.
Let's see Paul Allen's living room.

>>18483492
Do you think post fit, talk shit came about as a way to facilitate 'dick measuring contests' or perhaps to serve some other function?

>>18483492
This post is equivalent to saying you believe The Devil Wears Prada was an accurate representation of the fashion industry.

>>18483706
>Do you think post fit, talk shit came about as a way to facilitate 'dick measuring contests' or perhaps to serve some other function?
I don't fucking know. Is that an win for you? That I'm not familiar enough with /fa/ board culture? You chucklefucks gave me this impression in the first place. You've only got yourselves to blame.
>>18483768
It's called comedic exaggeration. I'm MOCKING you. I can't believe anyone on this toxic shithole could pretend not to know the place it inhabits in the greater "redpill hustle culture" or whatever the fuck you want to call it. Yes, it's absolutely *filled* with pretentious self-sucking sociopaths that inhabit shades of every exaggerated caricature of these types of people. Obviously.

>>18483814
you are incredibly stupid

>>18484004
I'm also right. Call me fucking rain man.

>>18483814
i hate you and your hubris. stop shitting up the thread, this is not your blog, you're not that important.

also, whoever spammed the thread with a million pictures is a fucking cunt. what a waste of board space.

>>18484190
Hubris? On /fa/? That's utterly unheard of. Shocking, really. As I recall none of my little "blog posts" were even off topic, so what the fuck is the issue exactly? What is the thread for if not posting images and having a discussion? It certainly seems more interesting than random morons asking for advice on how to make their shitty apartments look less heterosexual. Besides, the thread's been in full on fucking zombie mode since it hit the image limit. We're inhabiting the discussion equivalent of a fucking dingleberry, and the only reason it hasn't been wiped away is cause of this back and forth. It begs the question, why are you even entertaining this? It's not my fault you /fa/ggots can't stand even a little dissent. Why don't you take your OCD fixations out on your designer furniture that is approximately 5.7 nanometers out of place next time? Oh shit, does that painting on the wall look straight to you?

>>18484190
>also, whoever spammed the thread with a million pictures is a fucking cunt. what a waste of board space.

shut the fuck up. Images on topic are always welcome. It's a fucking imageboard, faggot

wow and I thought the watch threads had some bad image spam and shit flinging

>>18484548
images on topic are welcome when they serve the discussion.

when they're spammed without any demand, discussion or comment by one person taking up a vast majority of the thread (you've spammed runs of 59, then 26 and finally 45 uninterrupted commentless images from world of interiors that could've been a single fucking link. that means in your self importance you've decided that 130 of the 150 available images per thread are owed to you), they're a destructive tool in the hands of an autistic asshole to stifle any real chance for the topic to be discussed by more than one person. the fact that all 130 of these images were posted within 3 hours is pathetic whether done by automation or by hand but more than anything it shows the intention by the entitled cunt that dumped them here.

i know you've had trouble with this before but 4chan is not your personal pinterest/tumblr. "it's a fucking imageboard" – exactly, that includes "board" just as much as "image".

>>18484558
It's just one autistic teenager. He picks fights with everyone over everything.
>>18484660
You're getting mad at the wrong guy. The autistic teenager doesn't like the world of interiors, but Napoleon does. The autistic teenager prefers discordant mcm crap(default taste for "interiors interest me" types).

>>18484165
you are wrong, you are wrong and stupid. hopelessly stupid.

>>18485096
>He picks fights with everyone over everything.
Do I really? I bit back at Napole-Anon for a pithy critique forever ago but since then I've just been getting dogpiled on by /fa/ggot toadies nonstop. I mean,
>You're getting mad at the wrong guy.
Unbelievable. Pitiful bunch of sycophants. I can't wait to kek at the stupid score board next thread. It's cute, really. Truly my name is in lights.
>>18485101
Ignore me then. Not but a few scrolls up the thread Napele-Anon gave a cringey lecture about how my so called "blog posts"(read: sincere attempts at starting topical discussion) were unwarranted in, and I quote
>a place that has really only ever been useful for practical information and shitposting
And yet my replies are single-handedly driving this cohort of butt-boys up the wall. I wonder why? If I were just posting irrelevant bullshit you'd think disengaging would be the way to go, but what I'm saying really sticks in their craw. If I really am just SO wrong and SO stupid? Move on. If this is Napole-Anon it really should be easy for you. You seem well off. Educated. You've some measure of success, no? You've at least got your little toadies suckling away at your nuts. So not a care in the world, right? So what, one little Anon, supposedly an autistic teenager, is too ~"CrAzY"~ to see how all this self-congratulatory vacuous narcissism is actually intellectual profundity. How all this petty censoriousness is actually worthwhile contribution. Oh well! Post another smattering of exclusive locales while you throw shit at everyone that doesn't meet your fallacious standards. Adieu and goodbye, right?

Any thoughts on this wallpaper and/or recommendations for effay peel and stick? I live in a rental and want to make it feel more like home. I had success with peel and stick backsplash so I figure wallpaper is a good next step
>https://www.etsy.com/listing/1879394992/beige-abstract-retro-wallpaper-removable
>>18464912
>>18465118
Wood paneling is kino. I wish it would be fashionable again

>>18485293
>I wish it would be fashionable again
everything is fashionable if it's done right

>>18485232
> Napele-Anon gave a cringey lecture
You're confusing everyone who calls you a retard or doesn't like you for Napoleon, just like you did in the last three threads. So incredibly stupid. I guess someone has to be the lolcow of the moment though.
>>18485293
If you want like McM or West Coast modernism stuff, that probably won't come back in the same way, but wood panelling is still everywhere. Did you miss the entire Japandi trend where people were using thin wooden slats as full-wall panelling, or massive thin sheets of wooden wall coverings?

>>18485232
>post retarded bullshit
>wow everyone is so mad!!

>>18485375
>As written by Ellis, Bateman is the ultimate stereotype of yuppie greed - wealthy, superficial, obsessed with status, and addicted to sex, drugs, and conspicuous consumption. All of his friends look alike to him, to the point that he often confuses one for another. They also often confuse him for other people.
>>18485379
Your response to valid criticism from an outside observer is to desperately redirect said outside observers ire at me instead of your precious /fa/glord. You're needlessly dogpiling me and you don't even have the guts to admit it. Spiritually, you're a pack of rowdy niggers in designer clothes. Niggers of the soul, if you will.

>>18485411
>constantly references an author only read by gays and anorexic femcels
>valid criticism
>calls other people niggers
I mean, talk about projection or what. My god, surely it's not that hard to get sodomized in whatever god forsaken flyover you're trapped in.

>>18485411
>>18485232
>Do I really?
You're forgetting that your multi-month spergout started with you trying to shit on every other anon for posting images you didn't like.
>I wonder why?
you're on 4chan people like bullying retards here and shitposting into the void.

>>18485411
will stancil ahh post

>>18485742
>multi-month spergout
Doing the same thing you are. Show up every now and again and make a reply. It's "sperging out" cause you don't like what I say. Too bad bitch.
>started with you trying to shit on every other anon
I was using something that mildly annoyed me as a jumping off point to make a point about corporate design and where it gets it's influences from. Being incidentally hypocritical one time doesn't make me incorrect. What a reach.
>>18485733
The movie has always been popular with 4chan and it's arguably more culturally relevant than ever. Cope harder, you pitiful deflecting newfag. Just argue that Bateman is a hero already, at least that would be funny.
>god forsaken flyover
As soon as it seems clear that I'm not a jeet you just lethargically jump one rung up the ignoble ladder to a flyover yokel? Your desperation is palpable. Did I skip over being a nigger or a spic? What privilege I'm accumulating. Truly I am graduating in the ranks of the aristocratic elite. At this rate I'll be a new money billionaire with a private yacht by this time next thread.
>you're on 4chan people like bullying retards here and shitposting into the void.
None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with you. You're locked up in here with me.

>>18485791
Is that supposed to mean something to me? Twitter-brained fucktard.

>>18485096
>The autistic teenager doesn't like the world of interiors, but Napoleon does.
I swear to god these boards need IDs, this shit reads like pure insanity

SOMEONE MAKE A NEW THREAD ALREADY ITS AUTOSAGING

>>18486435
I like World of Interiors just fine, ackshually. I just don't like the thread getting crowded with nothing but that right away. We keep ending up in conversation limbo, and nobody has anything to say about the images from WOI.
>>18484660
This guy gets it.