Features Podcasts Family Video Comics Music Tech Science Books Film & TV Games ✚

Jill

Ugly furniture

Xeni Jardin at 6:19 pm Mon, Feb 8, 2010

— FEATURED —

THE LATEST

Guatemala: Nation's highest court throws out Ríos Montt genocide trial verdict and prison sentence

Feature

Eurovision 2013: An American in London

Book Review

The Twelve-Fingered Boy - mesmerizing YA horror novel

Book Review

Black Code: how spies, cops and crims are making cyberspace unfit for human habitation

— FOLLOW US —

Boing Boing is on Twitter and Facebook. Subscribe to our RSS feed or daily email.

 

— POLICIES —

Except where indicated, Boing Boing is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution

 

— FONTS —

Tweet
Kindle

Video Link. I sneer at your loveseat! (via Dangerous Minds, thanks, Tara McGinley)

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

MORE:  Weird

More at Boing Boing

Eurovision 2013: An American in London

The technology that links taxonomy and Star Trek

  • IronEdithKidd

    This furniture is hopelessly dated, but doesn’t quite hit the metric for ugly. I wish I could find a link to some furniture ads that ran in the Minneapolis Star/Trib during the 80′s. There was something I called “cabin furniture” which consisted of a neo-colonial shape couch or chair with a large floral pattern apholstry predominated by burnt orange, brown and gold.

  • haineux

    It’s just like
    It’s just like
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ3oHpup-pk

    (and most of you already filled in the missing words)

  • Æ’low

    Those who are from Melbourne (Australia) would know of Franco Cozzo who’s somewhat of a “quality” furniture legend…

    Everyone else, please observe:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZUVd9NMM_k

    • Itsumishi

      I think Franco Cozzo was more famous for his drug importing (inside the above mentioned ugly furniture) then he ever was for the furniture itself.

      sarcasm

      As for Xeni’s article I’m offended by the constant attacks on lower social demographics by liberal hipsters. We can’t all afford trendy furniture.

      /sarcasm.

  • Ugly Canuck

    I’ll take “ugly”…
    so long as it’s comfortable!
    I’ll throw “beauty” out….
    if sitting on it gives me cramps.

  • PapayaSF

    I liked the “space lamp,” but that was all….

  • BassTooth

    lol… ugh, my parent’s house..

  • pKp

    The couches are kind of all right…neutral.

    The lamps and sculpture, though, are just unbelievable.

  • Anonymous

    the narrator sounds a lot like the monarch. haha.

  • slappy

    hey space lamp … want to live inside my earth house? thanks. hahaha

  • Talia

    yeah some of that stuff wasn’t so bad. I rather liked that first abstract painting he zeroed in on.

    That .. ceramic lion thing, though.. there’s no excuse for that :P

  • MrsBug

    I’m totally hearing Jon Lovitz in this.

  • jimh

    The VO sounds a lot like Warren DeMontague! Maybe he’s doing commercial work now?

  • Anonymous

    When he said, “Look at these couches!” I was so sure he was going to follow it up with a “Just look at them!”

    I am disappointed.

  • Anonymous

    This stuff is bad, but it’s missing “home theater seating”. Illuminated cupholders for every seat. (Hi, Sprintz furniture in Nashville!)

  • El Cucui

    That’s still not as ugly as this:
    http://www.omodern.com/Eurobad/euro.html

    …or this (though this isn’t furniture):
    http://www.omodern.com/kult/index.html

    • Pantograph

      Those are all rather stylish actually.

    • thanbo

      The Eurobad furniture wasn’t so bad. It’s a bit dated, but some of it is quite nice. Some Danish Modern, etc.

      Anyway, I’d guess the “Eurobad ’74″ sign at the beginning was from a bathroom-fixtures trade show.

  • Anonymous

    Oh my god! I laughed so hard I cried. Thank you so, so much. Perhaps the ugliness of the furniture is debatable but the hilarity of the narrator’s snarky tone is not….tri-state area street… hahaha!

  • robulus

    No. No, you’re wrong. It was all ugly, that’s objective fact, and there is something very, very, wrong with you. I hope you find the help you need.

  • robulus

    *Nurse! 400mg of Thorazine STAT!* Just relax, drinkcoke2009, we’re going to take very good care of you.