(Used to be) Springwood Colquhouns: Interior desecrations : hideous homes from the horrible '70s by James Lileks, ISBN: 0307238725

Monday, November 12, 2007

Interior desecrations : hideous homes from the horrible '70s by James Lileks, ISBN: 0307238725

Continuing on the home renovations theme. Anxious to find inspiration for our 'new home' when it eventually gets done I reached for this little gem.

Bad taste in home decoration reached a peak, or nadir, in the 1970s, "a breathtakingly ugly period" as James Lileks demonstrates in this book. Interior desecrations show us the worst of the unlovely, unattractive, unlivable and unforgivable homes of the 1970s.

Room by room Lileks shows us hideous examples of 1970s interior design all accompanied by witty comment. I laughed till I cried over some of the pictures and their accompanying commentry. It's the perfect antidote to Country Style and Australian Home Beautiful.

Also by this author (and I'm reaching now for a couple of the library's Request for Purchase forms) : The gallery of regrettable food : highlights from classic American recipe books and Mommy knows worst : highlights from the golden age of bad parenting advice.

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