I read an interesting book called The Authenticity Hoax that I think hits some of the same themes as this article. We're living in a time when people are striving to be authentic -- picking unique vintage props and "curating" them -- yet also painstakingly documenting it all for other peoples' consumption. How authentic can the efforts be when it's all for the praise and approval of others? Clearly it's more nuanced than that, but the overall impact of blogging on or daily lives probably can't even be calculated right now.
I'm also always curious how history will remember this time. When someone throws a 2010's party decades from now, will they mockingly decorate with globes and serve drinks in mason jars?
Friday, June 8, 2012
Authenticity
Insightful comment on Apartment Therapy (original post links to NYT article about excessive use of props in decor):
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That's food for thought.
ReplyDeleteOn a related tangent, sometimes I wonder how long it will be before the current "vintage" and "eclectic" trend wears itself out, and when kids are going to start saying to their parents, "NO, I DON'T want your ikat rugs and that garage sale side table you spray painted yellow and your mid-century modern armchair reupholstered in a bold geometric fabric! It's so old-fashioned and 2010's! None of it even MATCHES!"