• @dbr Doesn't say, I've wondered! My guess was stacked MDF.

    Chrisbmx -
    Not my call.
    Personally, I see it as an escapist preoccupation of affluent, presumably neurotic, predominantly white people. Myself including to some extent.
    John Pawson, Soft-Minimalism patient zero said something along the lines of
    "I embraced minimalism as I tried to forget all the things I have had".
    Call me a bigot, but 'the simple life' gist of much of this, say, an 8k Pierre Chapo stool or rustic stoneware from Bonhams, I find as crass, more cynical even, than golden basins.
    Since imo this somehow stems from the predicament of the tastemakers/clients,
    Interiors you see on Insta or AD, I find it's unrelatable or non-inclusive, as San Rocco put it.
    Society of the spectacle by Debord is imo pretty much on point, and was alluded by SR above.

    I liked what Gae Aulenti said:

    "Sometimes people speak about reality as if a field effectively
    existed where it is expressed. Instead realities are infinite..." Here
    and elsewhere in the interview, Aulenti seemed to be saying that when
    one introduces a piece of design or a piece of architecture, not only
    is the "reality" of the designer or architect not of utmost
    importance, but the creation will be received by endless
    sensibilities.

    /csb, full disclosure - I haven't slept.

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