Sublime

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.

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

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The initial idea for the Vegetal chair in 2004 was to create a piece of furniture that appeared as if it had grown naturally, like a plant. For inspiration, its designers, the French brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, looked to historic furniture that integrated a sense of organic growth: English garden chairs constructed in boughs of cast iron;... See more