keep it neutral
Decorating choices in the OC favor beige, off-white, white, cream, "popcorn," bone, sand, "almond white," moon white," butter white, and other poeticizing names for the colors featured in this picture of neutral perfection. Is this color to which Switzerland aspires? We couldn't of course call any shade featured "light brown" because that would be of course too literal. It would be rude. If you want to maximize resale value, on your property, these homeowners are obeying the injunction to keep it neutral!My eyes hurt from looking this image: note the glass coffee table supported by curved steel legwork. This innovation is considered the height of tastefulness around here. I've been looking on craigslist OC for used furniture and there are a lot of glass and iron and tables. Don't ask me why people like them so much.-- I would have to take a shot in the dark and say that suburbanites like to think that table center pieces defy gravity -- they float more than they are supported.
I've decided that the names given to these colors without color are the kinds of "stealth poetry" and Spam Lit described by Mark Dery , but that actual interior decor cannot live up to the comic subtleties of color nomenclatura.
Color me neutral is also a political statement....
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that's ignorant - switzerland has beautiful color, both in interior decorating and in its landscape. and it's never been as "neutral" as people make it out to be.
I'm not talking about Switzerland as a color, -- Did I write Switzerland in my post without realizing it? I Switzerland is a country with some of the most progressive theorists, designers and architects in the world -- witness Vitra who kept alive modern design long before Hollywood rediscovered it. I'm talking about the way in which people in the US use the term NEUTRAL as a color.
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