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It’s interesting that the furnishings look, well, modern. They don’t look dated, or quaint, or from another era. The Bauhaus really did win.
by mannyv 2y ago
It’s interesting that the furnishings look, well, modern.
They don’t look dated, or quaint, or from another era. The Bauhaus really did win.
- bobthepanda 2y agoEh, the current furniture trend is all about precisely cut woods. The Hindenburg furniture looks like something you would see in a diner or fast food restaurants. It’s worth noting that everything, including the furniture, was designed to be lightweight and not flammable, so it isn’t necessarily representative of what was in vogue then either.
- porphyra 2y agoOn the other hand, the heavy use of aluminum parts resembles modern airplane interiors to some extent. Truly a great material, lightweight and strong.
- bobthepanda 2y agoAirlines take great care to hide the metal in their cabins, particularly the lie flat seats of first and business.
- WalterBright 2y agoThere was an aluminum piano on board, too.
- schiffern 2y agoThey didn't say it looks like expensive modern furniture. They said it doesn't look quaint or dated. The fact that such design been made accessible and democratized isn't a disqualifier. If anything it makes it even more "of our time."
- bobthepanda 2y agoIt’s dated, just not its original dates. Diners have been dying for a long time and fast food chains are busy ripping out their dining rooms for more drive thru lanes in 2024.
- SoftTalker 2y agoEspecially post-COVID but even before then, the vast majority of their sales were coming from drive-thru. The people who came inside were retirees who would order from the dollar menu and get a free cup of coffee and sit there for an hour.
- ghaff 2y agoI HATE drive-through. And mostly have no interest in going to places like Starbucks unless maybe if I'm traveling.
- M95D 2y agoAnd then they'll add them back while people wait for their cars to recharge.
- Isamu 2y agoLiterally Modernist. There’s some details that might be Art Deco inspired but overall just clean lines, metal tube furniture, uncluttered. It fits with the need to keep weight down. The Modern architect Le Corbusier took inspiration from the clean lines and shapes of aircraft and such, you can read about it in Vers Une Architecture.
- kjkjadksj 2y agoI think part of it is the lagging effect of copycat manufacturing that keeps it up even longer. You can get a copycat 1950 eames chair at any big box store today. However it seems like those copycats only really emerged the last 10-20 years. So we are now in this period where you might see a 70 year old fiberglass chair someplace and think it to be a very modern design. It probably won’t last forever I expect, but it makes you wonder what would even qualify today to be the next eames chair. I’m not sure how many contemporary, truly seminal designers there are today akin to an eames. Many more players in the space today from around the world keeps the notoriety distributed.