I miss times, when art was aesthetical/nice

[Livonica_Irreale]

I'm not talking strictly about "art", but overall design - such as architecture, domestic equipment, cellphones, cars etc.
Analysing art-styles through various periods - every age has something unique - yet it was beatiful/nice, despite sometimes absurd & abstract patterns (for example, futurism, art deco, modernism, impressionism etc.). Even through our present times we got pretty good design (for example 80's & 90's kitch, 2000's frutiger aero, early post-modernist architecture).
But i think, something ugly happened in the early 2010's. Internet websites lost it's unique design & parametrisation (anyone remembers youtube custom channel pages?), newer version of windows stopped being as flexible in changing it's visuals, as earlier, graphics became flattened and soulless (fucking corporate memphis, spawned even in public trains & announcements), corporate logos & products started to flatten their logos and maximally simplify their packages to the point, that original products started to look like bootlegs .
Even music, through years in pop radios there was a lot of various genres - especially synth & other electronical stuff. What happens now, when you listen to the radio? UMM OH YEAH BABY (TRAP BASS) UMMM OH YEAH BABY (TRAP BASS).
And what about architecture? Oh God, i hate it.
I remember when i was a child, an early post-modernistic building was still in fashion - and i remember back then new built housing estate was peak of beauty for me. Fantastic shapes, large windows (even with irregular sizes), lots of green, space, and good external walls colour choice.
What do we have now? Disgusting LOFT. LOFT - that resembles people's favorite place to live right now - their concentration camps... i mean workplaces. You tire yourself up 8-12h per day, and go back to your wagie cage, which looks like your favorite factory (iron unpainted bars included).
I'm tired. I want nice things back.

 

[Livonica_Irreale]

This ugly piece of shit are being sold as "exclusive designer houses" for crazy amount of money.

I'd more prefer old commie housing more - at least it doesn't looks like a garbage container.

 

[poorenglishcel]

This looks like a child's drawing xd

 

[ardeys]

100%, I study architecture and design and it starts from the schools where if you propose a good looking project they won't accept it, it will have to be minimalistic and nonsensical, I think we will not only have to fight this back directly but also to decorate our own reality with what each one of us can do

 

[ardeys]

100%, I study architecture and design and it starts from the schools where if you propose a good looking project they won't accept it, it will have to be minimalistic and nonsensical, I think we will not only have to fight this back directly but also to decorate our own reality with what each one of us can do

they'll often use the lie that good looking designs for example classical ones cost more but that's straight bs, today's minimalistic designes cost a lot or else they look like deranged commie blocks

 

[Old Bvll]

Decorations serve no purpose just a waste of time and resources

 

[Livonica_Irreale]

100%, I study architecture and design and it starts from the schools where if you propose a good looking project they won't accept it, it will have to be minimalistic and nonsensical, I think we will not only have to fight this back directly but also to decorate our own reality with what each one of us can do

In the future i plan to buy an old/semi-old house and arrange it as i wish.
Sometimes when i share my opinions about my taste, i get laughed - by family or in the internet.
For example, i fucking love internal wooden panelling and 2000's furniture (these colorful wooden ones), but everyone says that's childish, stupid and better buy yourself a wagie cage with straight minimalistic furniture.
I don't fucking care - i want nice things, not fashionable.

 

[Glassness]

This is what happens when profit comes before everything else

 

[ardeys]

Decorations serve no purpose just a waste of time and resources

No they do they’re very important to human psychology and mind, I used to think the same but they matter a lot otherwise you go into madness also define purpose since I don’t think it is just to eat and sleep

 

[ardeys]

In the future i plan to buy an old/semi-old house and arrange it as i wish.
Sometimes when i share my opinions about my taste, i get laughed - by family or in the internet.
For example, i fucking love internal wooden panelling and 2000's furniture (these colorful wooden ones), but everyone says that's childish, stupid and better buy yourself a wagie cage with straight minimalistic furniture.
I don't fucking care - i want nice things, not fashionable.

They’re just brainwashed they’re the type of people that would do everything the mainstream tells them

 

[ESL]

In the future i plan to buy an old/semi-old house and arrange it as i wish.
Sometimes when i share my opinions about my taste, i get laughed - by family or in the internet.
For example, i fucking love internal wooden panelling and 2000's furniture (these colorful wooden ones), but everyone says that's childish, stupid and better buy yourself a wagie cage with straight minimalistic furniture.
I don't fucking care - i want nice things, not fashionable.

not what you said but this room looks dope, i really like the look of it

 

[Livonica_Irreale]

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not what you said but this room looks dope, i really like the look of it

I was thinking more of this - because it's peak of coziness, but your picrel gives me vibes of coolness.

 

[ESL]

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I was thinking more of this - because it's peak of coziness, but your picrel gives me vibes of coolness.

this gives me memories even tho ive never lived or been to a similar room in my life
looks really cozy

 

[baldfartsniffer]

Neither of us were alive when things were aesthetically pleasing