u/Lobsterhasspoken

I know this might sound like a dumb question to ask, but so many of these houses (especially the pre-2008 recession ones) have these similar-looking faux antique decor pieces that it’s easy to imagine they’re brought from the same handful of companies or even a single retailer/manufacturer.

It’s hard to call this stuff even “dubes” because that implies they’re cheap low quality knockoffs of iconic design pieces (like an “Eames-inspired” lounge chair with uncomfortable leather upholstery and crappy particle wood shell base). None of this shit, however, isn’t tying to look like identical to any particular pieces so much as vaguely invoke something “historical” or representing old world luxury.

In other words, they’re still shit furniture, but they’re only interested in resembling something made from a pre-modern time period instead of a specific luxury good.

Inspired by American architect and futurist Buckminster Fuller’s (1895-1983) famous geodesic dome structures.

From the book "Architects House Themselves"