Donald Featherstone

I appreciated writer Claire Voon’s framing of the lawn flamingo phenomenon:

[The flamingo’s] enduring presence speaks to a desire to accessorize and embellish our personal spaces ; to transform and color the generic with individual tastes. As Featherstone told the Chicago Tribune : “An empty lawn is like an empty coffee table; you have to do someth

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It seems to me that Don believed deep down that our worlds were worth decorating, and that doing so was a joyful act. “The people who use lawn ornaments are typically friendly because they’re decorating the outside of their house for someone else,” he once told an interviewer.

“It isn't poor taste. It's what you do with it that's poor taste.” - Don Featherstone