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Japanese cafés were modeled on Parisian ones—though Paris was a place few Japanese people traveled to at the time, save the wealthy and the academic intelligentsia, who were…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Beautiful Things From the Past
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Also, I'm tired of the bland minimalist aesthetic that's polluted the contemporary Internet. If that's your shtick, I respect it, but it's not my vibe. I'm much more inspired by styles like Rococo, Baroque, and Art Nouveau; artists like Pissarro, Monet, and Cézanne; the interior design of châteaus in France and the exterior design of Disneyland.
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Does Anyone Really Have Taste Anymore? Microtrends move faster than we can question them. Labubus, polka-dot revívals, balletcore, blokette, tomato girl summers. It’s not that we shouldn’t like them. But most people don’t even know where these aesthetics come from, or why they’re drawn to them beyond the fact that the algorithm said yes.___LINEBREA... See more
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Loulou de la Falaise, muse et collaboratrice emblématique d’Yves Saint Laurent, était connue pour son style et son intérieur éclectiques et excentriques. Son appartement à Paris était un mélange unique d’objets d’art, de tissus luxueux, de meubles vintage et d’éléments exotiques. Elle aimait mêler les motifs et les textures, allant du velours aux i... See more
instagram.comThe beauty of concrete - Works in Progress
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Beauty, or our idea of it, is always rooted in deep desires, capitulations, and pathologies. It makes certain things so obvious. How we spend the present trying to secure the future, and thus squander what’s in front of us. How we fail to appreciate what we may later understand as an experience of unbelievable plenty: unlined skin, spare time on Sa
... See moreParis can only become more Parisian—it is already on its way to becoming hyper-Paris, a polished caricature.”