Things impossible not to like: Catherine Keener and mid-century modern design. In Please Give, Keener and Oliver Platt's married couple own a secondhand furniture store specializing in dead people's stuff. (There's actually a very similar looking shop on Valencia Street, in the Mission, and now I want to ask them where/who they supply from.) Oh wait, my blog post has to be redacted. The first person I asked said that she didn't like mid-century modern design. Great. There goes that theory. Well, I guess we're down to just Catherine Keener for universally liked things.
My friend said that she does not like that era of furniture because of the "inevitable 70s retro grade school vibe" she gets from the furniture. I guess she's right. Mid-century modern could be that, as it's so in right now. But just look at some of the chairs and buildings that came out of that era. How can anyone not love it?
It's amazing how just one comment from one person has tainted my opinion. Clearly I lack a backbone.
Anyway, I was going to suggest everyone go watch the Eames documentary, but clearly not everyone is going to agree it's a must-see. Fine, just go rent a Keener film, you philistines. May I at least suggest a Nicole Holofcener helmed Keener movie? The director of Please Give makes the most beautiful low key movies. Even her worst effort, Friends with Money, had its moments.
The book that inspired my first web domain is this, Hyperwest: American Residential Architecture on the Edge. I don't have my copy anymore but I'm proud to say that when anyone Googles "hyperwest," my long defunct site is the first option. Above even Amazon! I haven't accomplished much in my young life, but this is a big one. Hyperwest forever.
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