The Maximalists Are Coming

The Maximalists Are Coming
“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.” –Ralf Speth
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“We thought, everybody is posting the same kind of stuff on Instagram, like pictures of cappuccino, yoga, and it’s all perfect interiors
that look super-Scandinavian,” said the Swiss designer Jonas Nyffenegger, 30
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“I found at a certain point that things got so clean that they projected nothing,” Ms. Shestakovskaia, 39, said.
Her findings first surfaced on her Instagram account, @decorhardcore, a stream of furnishings
that could be described as ’80s glam meets ’90s kitsch meets grandma’s tchotchke cabinet.
If you have read a design magazine or, really, ever been inside a house with a subscription
to one, you will be familiar with the words: midcentury, modern, minimalist, Scandinavian.
They have become stand-ins for good design, as the styles they loosely describe have endured and only become more popular over time.