Sunday, September 5, 2010

What a disappointment.

I haven't posted here in like sixty years, but that doesn't mean that politics has stopped churning out design disasters. Case in point: Obama's new Oval Office rug is apparently embroidered with...quotations.

This is unacceptable. Words are great for T-shirts, bulletin boards, magnets, and tattoos. They are not to be used as decoration--not stuck on walls, needle-pointed onto pillows, or stitched into carpets.

Even without acknowledging how bad this is from a decorating standpoint, this is still a national crisis, as one of the quotations is apparently misattributed. Martin Luther King, Jr. is getting credit for something from one of his speeches...that he lifted from someone else. Oh, great.

See a slideshow of the redesigned office here. Take care to note the godawful coffee table.

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