Post by Ella
Is the name of a furniture store. Who doesn’t love retro modern utopian furniture?
A small shop, two floors packed with furniture stuff. In a building undergoing construction, we had to navigate scaffolding to enter.
We paused in front of this beauty (below) thinking it would be the most uncomfortable ever. The owner of the shop encouraged us to try it…although, she added, please don’t sit on anything else because you are wet (it was raining out). You can sit frontways, sideways or completely backwards with your legs through the openings. Chair fans…this was so unbelievably comfortable!
And then there was the sofa kiss.
A retro living room set up from 1909 (perhaps not the artwork).
I am sure everyone else in the world knows this except me but I wondered when something would be called retro as opposed to antique. Retro items are produced in the present but replicate styles of the past. Antiques are old stuff produced way back when. Definitions vary but at least 100 years old or older seems to qualify
I would agree with your take on retro. It’s a fun word. I also use it to describe practices from the past (but, as you said, not too far in the past). It’s hard to believe that chair would be comfortable. I assume it’s fabric and padded. The chair also looks vaguely obscene.
Very soft woven fabric made in Norway. The frame is steel but generously padded.
Manspreading. Google it if you don’t know the word.
I sat next to a manspreader on a recent flight (actually a boy, maybe 18). His legs were well into my space. He also took up the whole armrest.