Dare to Dream
Written: Nov 11 '99
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Pros: so pretty! great photography, fresh ideas
Cons: impractical, heavy in your tote bag, inspires guilt
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| vanity's Full Review: Wallpaper* Magazine |
You never will be as glamorous, well decorated, up to the minute, de rigeur, well shod, scantily clad, lavishly appointed, luxe, groovlicious, stylishly bored, death defyingly thin, meticulously groomed, or as well lighted as anything you will see in this British style rag. Which is exactly why you should read it. Allow me to explain.
Strip away the travel trends, hungry girls, party chatter and you actually have a really decent guide to what's up and coming in home decor. The nice thing - and i mean this in the nicest way possible - is you can then more easily separate trends from nouveau classics. Face it, if and when most people buy a $7,000 dollar couch, they're not thinking "this is a great look for fall" but "I better get at least a few good years and a couple of basement years out of this one." The photography is top notch, and be honest with yourself _- wouldn't you feel a little cheated if a British style magazine of this magnitude and heft didn't have an overdeveloped sense of ego?
Every page you turn is a ticket to another fantasy world where there is no cat hair on your cashmere sweater, every room has both southern and eastern exposures, and is a clean slate you can redraw at will, and you're constantly on the phone with your decorator saying "no, birch and aqua is so last month, i want canary and walnut... yes, i am all about contrast this fall, but keep your eyes peeled, because I'm thinking monotone olives for winter." (Of course you'll know full well, you're already past monotone Olives for winter and you're going to go with the pewter/cherry/post classical revival look, naturelment!)
If you're the kind of person for whom escapist decorating fantasies are a genuine trip to the happy place, like me, then Wallpaper* is a good choice. I'm constantly spending money in my head my banker may never see on paper. But it's a nice place to visit and to be honest, I really would like to live there. Wallpaper* definitely brings out your inner capitalist.
Be warned - if you think Ikea is a perfectly sound place to shop, this will be too frivolous for you. Even if you don't, occasionally, like me you'll have moments of shame at coveting things beyond your grasp and so patently decadent. Occasionally, I pick up good tips and whatnot, find little must have fetish items that give me something attainable to obsess over for a while, and again, saying it all public like this makes me feel a little of the guilt of the bourgeoisie.
Nothing like a little bourgeois guilt though, to get you through the day. My freind calls it "chick porn", but I know some style conscious boys who get as giddy as I do over things like this.
Recommended:
Yes
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Member: leslie harpold
Location: new york, ny
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