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It appears that a reoccurring theme fuels the fires beneath this afternoon’s addition to the pantheon of design and decorating clichés. Our cultural obsession with wretched excess is as well documented. Too much to eat! Too many plastic surgeries! Too many extra curricular activities! There can be no real surprise when we discover entire collections of home furnishings dedicated to excessive amounts of overblown carving, ridiculously exuberant proportions and gilding to rival Versailles.
“I hate faux-French furniture.”
As is the case with any careless knock-off an original exists and exemplifies the best qualities of beauty, grace and artistry. Respectful reproductions can be appreciated for what they are; reproductions. Cartoonish parodies might be well suited for Vaudevillian entertainment but they have no place in the homes of unwitting or unconscious consumers.
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