The ugly sofa thread

[jomar]

Oooh. Perfect thread for this link I found a few days ago.

Awesome!

 

[BlackShanglan]

Time for a bag of silly. I challenge you to find a single piece of furniture that is more hideous than this.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e394/mi_liar/ouchcoach.jpg

My eyes! My eyes! *paws helplessly at them*

Dear lord. It's ... it's epic. Many things can be ugly incidentally, but the quantity of care and painstaking work that went into each seperate element of hideousness here is simply staggering. What are those bizarre horn-like structures along the top? Why on earth would anyone choose that pattern? And who looked at this sofa and thought, "You know, what this really needs is some fringe on those pillows"?

It's a work of art.

 

[Elianna]

You mean like this?

There's Waldo!

 

[BlackShanglan]

Holy bovines. It's Svenska.

It's awfully good to see you back.

 

[tickledkitty]

What about the little heart-shaped mirror-topped coffee table/ottoman thingys? They're adorable. Sorta.

 

[kromen]

Time for a bag of silly. I challenge you to find a single piece of furniture that is more hideous than this.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e394/mi_liar/ouchcoach.jpg

You win. That is a fucked up couch.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

You mean like this?

Oh dear Lord, that's funny. This new digital camoflage is some strange stuff but I never, never thought it would blend with bad furniture.

 

[john-the-author]

Time for a bag of silly. I challenge you to find a single piece of furniture that is more hideous than this.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e394/mi_liar/ouchcoach.jpg

I've had the flu all week, with occasional puking and the whole bit. Looking at the rug is making my stomach very, very uncomfortable.

Maaaaaahterfaaaaahker, that is one butt ugly sofa.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Maaaaaahterfaaaaahker, that is one butt ugly sofa.

Who would ever have thought that such a statement could be an understatement . . . but it is!

 

[Guest]

My last year of college one of my mom's friends was moving into a smaller home.

She gifted me with a dining room set (not in good shape) an oval mirror (I love it and still have it) and a western themed sofa, chair and end tables I quickly christened the "Hoot Gibson" furniture.

Plasticine, pretend vinyl complete with sewn on garish cowboy hats and cacti. It was amazingly horrid.

At first opportunity I donated it to the school garage sale my first year of teaching. Somebody bought it.

*shudder*

 

[BlackShanglan]

You win. That is a fucked up couch.

And you know, we really have to give credit to the whole scene. It's not just a staggeringly hideous couch; it's a staggeringly hideous couch surrounded by a rug and curtains that appear to have come from a different color scheme, time period, and dimensional theory of reality.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

My last year of college one of my mom's friends was moving into a smaller home.

She gifted me with a dining room set (not in good shape) an oval mirror (I love it and still have it) and a western themed sofa, chair and end tables I quickly christened the "Hoot Gibson" furniture.

Plasticine, pretend vinyl complete with sewn on garish cowboy hats and cacti. It was amazingly horrid.

At first opportunity I donated it to the school garage sale my first year of teaching. Somebody bought it.

*shudder*

LOL There's a motel in Calgary, Alberta that is entirely decorated that way. I honestly hate to imagine the collector's value of all that stuff. The room I was in even included an original framed Hoot Gibson movie poster. Jim's had a pair of Gene Autry chaps hanging from the ceiling!

 

[DeeZire]

Whenever I see ugly furnishings I'm reminded of Hearst Castle, which is a shrine to bad taste. I also think of Donald Trump. Perhaps the couch graces one of his guest rooms?

 

[BlackShanglan]

If you've got a little time and a taste for hideous furnishings, you might care to take a little stroll through the Gobbler:

http://www.lileks.com/institute/motel/dineent.html

It's a monument to the great aesthetics movements of the 70's. I particularly like the turkey-patterned carpet in that opening page, but don't deprive yourself of the full tour.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

If you've got a little time and a taste for hideous furnishings, you might care to take a little stroll through the Gobbler:

http://www.lileks.com/institute/motel/dineent.html

It's a monument to the great aesthetics movements of the 70's. I particularly like the turkey-patterned carpet in that opening page, but don't deprive yourself of the full tour.

The truly frightening part of The Gobbler is that it resembles much of what passes for Mid-Century Modernist architecture as exemplified by Los Angeles International Airport. In fact, I would swear that the restaurant there is a near carbon-copy of The Gobbler. Quelle horror!

 

[BlackShanglan]

I accidentally posted a link part-way through the tour. I hope that didn't keep you from seeing the wall-to-wall, up-the-wall carpeted rooms with more of the lovely purple and orange motif.

Whenever I start to think that modern life might not be hopelessly banal, cheap, and ugly, I remind myself that the rich, beautiful tradition of tapestries and hangings of silk and brocade was translated, in the 1970's, into purple nylon carpet glued to walls.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I accidentally posted a link part-way through the tour. I hope that didn't keep you from seeing the wall-to-wall, up-the-wall carpeted rooms with more of the lovely purple and orange motif.

Whenever I start to think that modern life might not be hopelessly banal, cheap, and ugly, I remind myself that the rich, beautiful tradition of tapestries and hangings of silk and brocade was translated, in the 1970's, into purple nylon carpet glued to walls.

I went through the entire Gobbler site. Ga-rosse! Those rooms are the sort of thing a hyper-gonadal 14-year-old (yanno, Bevis and Butthead?) would want in a batchelor pad.

 

[Vermilion]

My eyes! My eyes! *paws helplessly at them*

Dear lord. It's ... it's epic. Many things can be ugly incidentally, but the quantity of care and painstaking work that went into each seperate element of hideousness here is simply staggering. What are those bizarre horn-like structures along the top? Why on earth would anyone choose that pattern? And who looked at this sofa and thought, "You know, what this really needs is some fringe on those pillows"?

It's a work of art.

It's the heart-shaped footstools that get me

 

[Katyusha]

Gawd. I feel unclean after having viewed that. *runs off to take a scalding hot shower*

 

[voluptuary_manque]

But Does Anyone From The Upper Midwest Know If The Gobbler Still Exists????

 

[Guest]

i just wanna christen it for some reason...


Maharat

 

[glynndah]

i just wanna christen it for some reason...


Maharat

If you're thinking of the traditional way with a bottle of champagne, I suggest you drink the champagne first and then toss the empty bottle on it. If you're referring to the alternate method of "christening", blindfolds might be in order.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

If you're thinking of the traditional way with a bottle of champagne, I suggest you drink the champagne first and then toss the empty bottle on it. If you're referring to the alternate method of "christening", blindfolds might be in order.

And earplugs! That thing is 'loud'.

 

[glynndah]

And earplugs! That thing is 'loud'.

Oh, you're right. Good thinking, Mr. Bear!

 

[Liar]

And earplugs! That thing is 'loud'.

I'll bet it's a squeaker.