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20th century functional
Osbert Lancaster, in Pillar to Post and Homes, Sweet Homes,
nailed some pretentious styles of the interwar years with epithets like
Banker’s Georgian, Stockbroker’s Tudor and Bypass Variegated. Here are a few
more that reveal a place, a time, an attitude, a level of aspiration.
advertisers’ nostalgia How could anyone who had read the book and who had any
respect for literature… turn this story of glum penny-pinched '30s London into
1990s-style standard advertiser's jolly-jumpered "Heritage" golden
nostalgia? (imdb on Keep the Aspidistra Flying)
alpine
chalet chic
ashcan chic (When did you last see an
ashcan?)
Banker’s Georgian
boho chic
boudoir bungaloid
growth
Bungalow Bliss (era in Ireland)
Bypass Variegated diorama décor
Edwardabethan
(Richard Thompson)
French flea market (old posters and ads for drinks)
fruit-salad civic Jonathan Foyle, BBC4 Sept 12 10
Gin and Jag Belt Does it still exist? Yes,
apparently it’s in
Maidenhead, according to a government report of January 2003. Probably
now the
wife-swapping and orgy belt. Wives have nothing to do once they’ve done
up the
house but become an alcoholic or have affairs with the pool maintenance
man.
Their husbands have affairs too, but the wives don’t complain and stay
stubbornly put – they don’t want to become a nouveau pauvre
divorcée.
golden ghettoes
hard-core suburban Fanny Cradock “had hard-core suburban taste” Paul Levy Indy June 10
high
tech
Joke Oak Marks and Spencer Zen: beige, white, brown and piles
of large pebbles. (Briefly Woolworths Zen, before the chain went bust. Now Glade Zen.)
maximalism
(minimalism with 70s wallpaper)
Media Gulch
Nappy
Valley
Neo Geo
New Age rococo On Skye, I'm staying in a cottage whose design can only be described as new age rococo. Stags, swags, wind chimes. Love it. @tomdyckhoff
mod lodge What do you get when you mix modern wood panelling, stone fireplaces, mountain views, and the occasional resin deerhead? The "mod lodge" look — it's a blend of old-school Alpine and sixties mod style — knotty pine meets Knoll. apartmenttherapy.com
ranch-style cat-slide roofs, chimneys with exposed
stone outside and in, popular in 60s housing developments in Liphook (hasn't been revived yet, but give it time) scando-simple Alone in this clinically faux-funky space (Scando-simple wooden furniture, facetious lamps, abstracts with blue splodges apparently styled after cancer cells), Matthew Norman 29 may 10
Scottish Baronial
shabby chic To Americans it seems to mean “looks like a
house that hasn’t been done up since 1910”, with pastel shades, doilies, white
painted welsh dressers, faded florals, patchwork, Anne of Green Gables etc. In
England, means country house that hasn’t been done up since 1910, chintz sofas
covered in dog hairs, ancestral portraits, rotting silk curtains and furniture
from all periods since 1500. If you haven't owned your moated manor house since 1450, interior decorators will create this look for you. Stockbroker’s Tudor
tart’s boudoir style
tart’s rococo
the
aesthetic is very "Ikea room set" (Jay Rayner Observer Nov 09)
the Celine Dion school of design (Colin and
Justin)
the first-class airport lounge
look felt a bit Mayfair 2004. (Matthew Norman)
These developments risk turning “contemporary”into the new Neo-Georgian.
The Treasury went from Soviet-era
hospital to Marriott hotel.
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