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I loved Dita Von Teese’s old house, but now she’s bought a larger, Tudor style home and decorated it very differently. (She still has her vintage taxidermy collection, though.)
This is the entrance hall. Originally, she collected taxidermied birds.
This was her old living room- Art Deco furniture, and the designer picked out the beautiful flocked teal wallpaper.
This is the new living room. Check out that tiger- the crown is a nice touch. Dita says all the taxidermy is at least 75 yrs. old.
She went bright red oriental in the dining room.
This was her old kitchen- retro & pink.
The new kitchen- she wanted it to look like a woman’s kitchen. Well, she’s got a teal Aga stove.
Rosy red velvet sitting room.
The old dressing table had a sultry glamour.
The new.
The old bedroom.
The new.
A collection of vintage hats adorned her old dressing room.
The new one is a converted closet.
This is the shoe room.
It has a lovely bath that matches the style of the house, but it’s not her usual Hollywood style. I don’t know, I just like the old house better.
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/
“Boredom is different nowadays. It’s about super-saturation, distraction, restlessness. I am often bored but it’s not for lack of options: a thousand TV channels, the bounty of Netflix, countless net radio stations, innumerable unlistened-to albums, unwatched DVDs and unread books, the maze-like archive of YouTube. Today’s boredom is not hungry, a response to deprivation; it is a loss of cultural appetite, in response to the surfeit of claims on your attention and time.”
— Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past
I think we have to do forbidden things- otherwise we suffocate. But without feeling guilty and instead as an announcement that we are free.
(via amargedom)