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Vulgar -adjective
1. characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste: vulgar ostentation. Vulgar use of color and materials.
2. indecent; obscene; a vulgar work; a vulgar interior; a vulgar gesture.
3. crude; coarse; unrefined.
4. lacking in distinction, aesthetic value, or charm; banal; ordinary: a vulgar interior.
--- The unrefined, inelegant, lowbrow interiors presented in MXM: Maximalist Interiors offer the reader all of the above - and more.
This book shocks the reader with juvenile, violent collisions of design elements, defiantly trashy, and antiestablishment interiors. It endeavors to replace a lack of expert dexterity, respect for history, ingenuity and adroit use of materials with cheap shock value decorating ploys. Trite clichA s such as psychedelic garden gnomes, silver spray-painted mannequins, hot red shaggy fake fur upholstery and homoerotic metaphors. Herein lays much sturdy competition for the Bordello-Baroque awards.
A London mechanic's workshop converted to Michael Davis and Andrew Logan's love nest, features a master bedroom with all the unrestraint of the bathroom shrine featured in Midnight Cowboy.
MXM is a concocted design shibboleth painfully seeking recognition and legitimacy.
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