IN THIS ISSUE: HUMANS AND ONE ANIMAL IN THEIR MOST LITERAL FORM make for great interiors inspiration.
Including…
HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH STUFF by making stuff look like friends
Introducing EDEN-CORE
Jeanane Garofalo’s ass in AN ENORMOUS MITT
Dear Snoops,
As much as homes are personal AF, and lots of fun private alone time happens in them, they are also super useful spaces to enjoy the company of others. Others = Other humans and/or animals a.k.a. pets.
And, yet, we find ourselves SOLO from time to time — or all the time. By choice (you don’t like people), by circumstance (people don’t like you). But when you can’t rely on people to keep you company, YOU CAN RELY ON FURNITURE.
Today, we praise the inanimate objects that fill that void by mimicking PEOPLE (and animals).
WE PRAISE THE LITERAL OBJECTIFICATION OF HUMANS. And it’s okay.
A side note on TREND:
Have you noticed this current era of OVERSIZED things? Like, the popularity of having some jumbo version of [insert small object] as decor?
Which is / has been super fun.
But, as the pendullum swings towards what we assume will be the turn of the Teeny-Tiny (even in fashion is heading to Petite), inevitably we land here, at 1:1 human ratio. And the best way to be 1:1 human ratio is to also take human form.
OBJECTIFIED HUMAN, EXHIBIT A: THE BOULOUM CHAISE, made in (*wink) 1969
The image below is part party, part POMPEII-FROZEN-IN-TIME-SILHOUETTE, part ripe-for-Objectophilia.
We suggest at max ONE Bouloum chaise per household.
ASIDE:
This chair is manufactured by this company called ARCONAS that specializes in AIRPORT FURNITURE (major disappointment). But hilariously, ARCONAS today recommends this chaise for “libraries, collaboration areas, think tanks, lounges, children’s hospitals, or at home.” HOW TOTALLY ABSURD that those might all share a common thread. We adore that.
One such chair was recently sold by SAME OLD, truly one of L.A.’s best sources. Always very excellent stuff.
Ok, but back to MOURGUE. The precursor to the BOULOUM, imho, was the DJINN CHAISE. And the DJINN CHAISE is connected to the DJINN CHAIR and the DJINN CHAIR is connected to one of FOR SCALE’s favorite interior inspo films:
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
PROPOSITION: “EDEN-CORE”
Erase sin by reversing the clock to a time before things took a turn: THE GARDEN OF EDEN.
As avid FOR SCALE readers will know, we are deeply appreciative of florals. See that post HERE. We’ve seen popular L.A. sellers reupholster from neutrals to florals, and for such pieces to be introduced into very stylish interiors.
Let’s peep the 1980s interior of MR. KIRK DOUGLAS in Beverly Hills:
OK, now. Keep flowers in mind. And add:
And, doesn’t this feel like the start of something major?! Humans + nature are both great and comforting things - but these ones you can leave behind on holiday without imposing on friends to look after them.
Recommended accessory: APPLE
Recommended accessory: SNAKE
Both in CHROME, another of our obsessions currently. (See HERE for Chrome) Both for sale by FOR SCALE friends FORMAS.
ALTERNATIVE:
Don’t lay upon your humanoid fiends, gaze upon them.
EXPLORING THE RANGE OF ANTHROPOMORPHISM +
APPENDAGES ‘R’ US
If laying on top of a Human Shape that can’t whisper sweet nothings into your ear, try an animal. May we suggest THE BEAR.
Snoops, this is IKEA!!!!!!!! A product of their 1990s attempt to give themselves proper design credentials – they called that project IKEA PS. (IKEA are still trying their best to be Design, capital ‘D’. NEXT MONTH they’re releasing some lighting by SABINE F*CKING MARCELIS, who is great.)
Anyway, this one moves up and down and blah blah, you can have lots of fun with it. It’s by Per Ivar Ledang and Nanna Ivarsson.
But, equally, there are ways to go ANTHROPOMORPHIC without going full EDEN-CORE, or doing the whole Infatalizing Teddy Bear thing. And a lot of that has to do with APPENDAGES:
APPENDAGE 1: THE FOOT
Kind of a TWEEDLE DEE, TWEEDLE FUM thing happening there. And a suitable way to introduce feet without that being a goddamn clawfoot bathtub.
FOR SCALE super pal NFS was also recently touting a large foot, which seem to be a little DIME A DOZEN right now. GAETANO PESCE, the still-alive-legend of Italian design who is having a really fucking moment, did a famous and famously big foot.
But anyway, NFS adds to the mix the shoe:
APPENDAGE 2: DOWN THERE
I would encourage you to Google the ESPADA CHAISE by Santiago Calatrava (NYers, he did the world trade center transpo hub), which has a down and “UP” position.
Okay, fuck it, I’ll do it for you. Here is the UP POSITION.
APPENDAGE 3: THE HAND
I would like to introduce Joe, who is a GLOVE CHAIR, and is not really himself a HUMANOID but also has a Human Man name. (GREY AREA)
He was born in 1971, and his most famous cameo was in THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS AND DOGS, sat in by the IDOL OF IDOLS, Janeane Garofalo:
THAT’S ALL FOR NOW, SNOOPS. You can’t really say anything after you mention JANEANE. But, as a final note, I think the point of this one is really just HUMOR, alright? Human objects always look ridiculous and we are here for it. Fuck the patriarchy, and make the domestic come to life.
And, yes, we know we’ve ignored the LIPS PHONE and the LIPS SOFA, okay?!
LOVE AND GOOD LUCK,