Site of the Day for Friday, August 24, 2001

        "Interior Desecrators - Ugly Rooms for the Beautiful People"

        The inimitable James Lileks has done it again.

James Lileks, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a well-known journalist,
novelist, broadcaster and all-round curmudgeon. The "Interior Desecrators"
is just one section of his enormous website.  

"This site is a labor of hate. A hate that burns like your knees burn after
you=92ve slid a yard on a harsh synthetic rug. A hate I=92ve nourished and
stoked for decades. I came of age in the 70s, and there were few crueler
things you could inflict on a person. The music: bad. The culture: dreck.
The politics: miserable. The world: nasty. Hair: unspeakable. Architecture:
the worst it had ever been in human history. No oil. No fun." - from the
website 

"Interior Desecrators" is a vast site (in excess of 300 pages) over which
you may while away the weekend. The author has taken a 1975 Better Homes
and Gardens Interior Design book, scanned in many of the photographs and
prepared a withering commentary on these examples of ultimate '70's style.

If you were an adult during the '70's or are simply curious as to what
posed as high decorating style during that era, this site may leave you
helpless with mirth.

http://www.lileks.com/institute/interiors/bhg/index.html 


A.M. Holm
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