fireplace design disaster
In my job I often come across brochures for things that make my mind boggle. Take the designs for this fireplace:
I mean, someone actually sat down one day and thought - 'I know, I think I'll draw a fireplace with a miniature fibre glass stone-henge stuffed in it.' I could forgive them that bit, but to then continue to the next stage of thinking 'hmm yes - that looks good, I think I'll get these manufactured' is the amazing part. Maybe they had been watching the Spinal Tap movie.
This one is just as hideous, with a fake bit of Grecian column wedged in and two jets of flames spurting out at a bizarre angle. Who buys these things?
I mean, someone actually sat down one day and thought - 'I know, I think I'll draw a fireplace with a miniature fibre glass stone-henge stuffed in it.' I could forgive them that bit, but to then continue to the next stage of thinking 'hmm yes - that looks good, I think I'll get these manufactured' is the amazing part. Maybe they had been watching the Spinal Tap movie.
This one is just as hideous, with a fake bit of Grecian column wedged in and two jets of flames spurting out at a bizarre angle. Who buys these things?
posted by Rach at 14:12
4 Comments:
Do you think it would look better in Dobly?
what you have to remember is that there is a fine line between clever and stupid
I once went into a house in Dore, Sheffield and the chap it belonged to was a scrap metal dealer. His house was full of kitsch rubbish like that. Leopard prints, and lots of gold cherubs...I have a feeling he would have loved those fireplaces. There's obviously a market for them or they wouldn'e be being manufactured!!!
oh and also - did no-one ever tell the designers that stone DOES NOT BURN!!!! Even fake stone. The more I look at those images the more I get cross.
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