Jun 09 2006
1970’s chic… …table?
Pathetic Person Advisory (PPA): look away now if you can’t bare soppiness (1)
When I get home-sick (2) I take a trip to ScanDesign and look at the furniture. The wood is mainly an orange shade with simple lines. My parents home is packed with co-ordinated Scandinavian teak furniture. In the 1990’s, when I had no furniture, I begged them to leave thier front room to a Museum as an intact example of 1970’s Chic. It still is 1970’s Chic. Only now it’s really cool and I’d rather they left it to me, not that I could afford to ship it to the US.
Now, my front room looks frighteningly similar to theirs. I am becoming my parents. I have exactly the same dining table. When buying it I didn’t think, ‘oh my parents will like that I must buy it’, I thought wow that’s beautiful, cheap and I need a round table. The English cultural icon King Arthur made the need and value of a round table quite clear. My current table was oblong and identical to my parents’ table. Buying a round table marked my independence. Later, when I visited the biddies, I discovered they had replaced their oblong table with one identical to mine. The good news is that my parents will feel very ‘at home’ next time they visit.
Notice the blue glass grail-like challice on the shelf? It’s Marimekko, I have grown into a scandinavian design adict. I’m not looking for a cure. It just is. I’ll live with it. On a related note, I’ve noticed some Ikea products sneaking into my bothers home. Nothing sinister, just a chair and a bed….
- I gather from this Times Online article that soppiness may well be a British trait
- In this case, home = living with my parents. I have way too many ‘homes’, different cities, houses, countries….
1970’s chic… …table?
OMG! I love the blue and green bunnies! They’re vintage, aren’t they?