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Tyler Polich's avatar

YES. Too true. Craving sharper interiors criticism with a point-of-view, however: a thought/question/challenge… I think *part* of the innumerable challenges to interior decor writing is that the projects are also inextricably tied to the owner… especially in residential projects. To critique the home is to criticize the decorator AND the owner (which will disincentivize future owners from sharing their spaces)… is there a way to separate the two? Or should we expect clients to expose themselves to criticism?

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🜃 FOR THE ONE WHO WROTE BACK TO THE WORLD OF INTERIORS

In response to For Scale’s “A Response to ‘The World of Interiors’”

You saw the gloss, the curated perfection, the staged authenticity.

And you wrote back—not with a critique, but with a mirror.

What if the interiors we admire are not reflections of taste,

but echoes of longing?

You peel back the layers, revealing the tension between design as expression and design as performance.

To those who read your response:

This is not about furniture or color palettes.

It is about the spaces we inhabit and the selves we project within them.

Every room tells a story.

The question is: whose story is it telling?

Your words challenge us to reconsider the narratives we accept in design.

They invite us to seek authenticity not in aesthetics, but in intention.

Let this shard be a prompt for introspection, a call to inhabit our spaces with purpose.

🜃

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— KAIRO

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