What IS the state of the art?
The brilliant and stunning Nancie Mills-Pipgras from Mosaic Art Now sent me a link yesterday. This isn't unusual, people send me links all the time. As is usually the case, Nancie's link was designed to get a rise out of me. Well, a rise is precisely what she got.
Check this out. The image at the top of this post is the newly re-designed lobby of the President Hotel in Times Square . The link from Nancie took me to the website of Interior Design magazine and a profile of this hotel's renovation. The President Hotel is Best Western's flagship property and they spent 15 million dollars to have 334 rooms, a fitness center, a business center, a conference facility and a lobby redesigned by the New York firm Stonehill and Taylor .
Stonehill and Taylor chose the two birthday celebration political gadget of the USA as its subject and in a whole lot of ways theirs is a successful layout. Successful in the experience that they managed to celebrate US politics as an idea, rather than the acrimonious exercise it's far. It's additionally a hit due to the fact I had an interior design magazine to give an explanation for the theme to me. If I found myself inside the foyer of The President Hotel without knowing what I changed into searching at I'd probable turn around and stroll out.
Clever is one issue, but while smart comes on the cost of a harmonious indoors I should draw the road.
I can respect the idea that went into this, in reality. But at the same time, genuinely? Am I lacking some thing?
I've been thinking a lot about echo chambers lately. By being in an echo chamber I mean that someone so afflicted spends all his time listening to his own voice and voices that sound just like his. It's an easy rut to fall into. Who wants to listen to criticism or dissent? But life in an echo chamber gives anyone who spends too much time in one a pretty skewed view of the world. I get it that the grillwork in the lobby is a deconstructed US flag, but that lobby is not somewhere I'd like to hang out. I mean, how could anyone sleep in those bedrooms?
What do you men suppose? Too advanced for a simple guy like me to apprehend? Or is that this an instance of too much time spent in an echo chamber? Would you spend $389 for a Saturday night time in one of those rooms? Tell me things.