Art Deco interior design trends offer the homeowner a museum-type vibe with an array of conversation pieces. Curved mirrors, Tiffany lamps, lacquered furniture, velvet drapes, silk lamp shades, small furniture, thick carpeting and symmetrical geometric shape patterns can all add a hint of Deco to a room. “It’s about glamour and getting a glimpse of those bygone days where TV was less important and it was about cocktail hour and company,” furniture designer Barclay Butera tells HGTV. (more…)
The web has been fantastic for photography, allowing us to see images that would have struggled to attract our attention in the past. With this in mind, Kendall Anderson’s website features some fascinating images of urban decay that recently caught my attention.
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Particularly interesting are two former medical facilities, St. Mary’s Manor, an abandoned nursing home in New York State and Whitby Psychiatric Hospital in Ontario, Canada.
Photographing abandoned medical facilities, particularly psychiatric hospitals, has become something of a trend on the internet. Playing on our ignorance of mental health problems and cultural disgust at treatments such as electroconvulsive therapy and ice-pick lobotomies, combined with the tantalising fear of decaying, yet imposing, Victorian architecture, these photographs speak to us of horror and institutionalised terror – the diametric opposite of the thoughts of the Victorian philosopher John Stuart Mill who said “[For] his own good is not sufficient warrant.” (more…)
