Posted on 03/25/2015 7:34:02 AM PDT by NOBO2012
Okay, Im going to make this as quick and painless as I can.
Yes its true, Lady M axed the Big White florist. No, not because she was white, although she was. It was because she and Lady M just grew apart. When Lady M hired Laura Dowling in 09 everything was fine as her tastes still ran towards the classics.
Which was fine because florist Laura Dowling was also known for her classic floral arrangements.
Butt then, as happens with so many relationships, one partner evolved and the other didnt. In this case Lady Ms tastes grew more sophisticated over the years and began to veer towards the avant-garde.
Because nothing says avant-garde like a tight, short, dual-print pleather shirtwaist, with kitten heels.
So the breakup was inevitable: Lady Ms new modern and clean aesthetic:
just no longer meshed well with Lauras fussy style
You can see now, cant you, why Lauras definite French style clashed with the new MO aesthetic? Gone too, was the tired old classic dining room, with all those paintings by old dead white guys on the walls.
In was the modern design, muted color family room where the only color was provided by the modern art of Rauschenberg,
butt more importantly, a very important painting by the African American artist Alma Thomas, Resurrection.
If youve ever painted, you might recognize the painting as derivative of clean, unfussy style of a color wheel blending exercise:
Butt I digress: You can clearly see why Ms. Dowling and her fussy, white privilege floral arrangements had to go -
Now that Lady M has come into her own style and demands something more modern - and if I may say so, more tasty tasteful:
All of which is a long way around to explaining this rather unfortunate, uh, incident, when leaving Cambodia:
Buddha's Revenge from the Earl of Taint h/t Gerard, who never misses nuthin
Oh, and one last thing: this newfound aesthetic of MOs does not stop at floral arrangements, room design and fashion. Her new-found love of all things modern and unfussy apparently applies to her own personal look too. Did you seen our new do on Jeopardy last night?
H/T Clarice, who wonders if the wig hats did her in, or if the florist ran off with them.
Thats all Ive got.
Posted from: Michelle Obamas Mirror
Every furniture store I know also sells decor. So I’m not sure what your point is. You said the room looked like IKEA, but the exact same furniture is in the room as before and is even in the same locations. The furniture itself looks wonderful and they are probably valuable pieces. It is obvious that you didn’t look at the photos carefully before making a comment.
I never SAID the word ‘furniture.’... it IS the IKEA look.... get it?
Those floral designs look too white. Racist even.
Maybe she ditched the wigs because now she’s gonna fully embrace her black-is-beautiful-ness...
Don’t feel embarassed. You were just caught up in the excitment of trying to make fun of the obamas.
I am not embarrassed, but YOU ought to be.. cause if you can find the word ‘furniture’ in what I said... YOU put it there!
I’m not understanding anything about your rant. I was pointing out that the furniture was exactly the same as in the first photo. You obviously didn’t notice that since you called it IKEA style. It is not IKEA style. In fact, that is the main reason why the room doesn’t look right. If the room had actually been done entirely in the IKEA style with IKEA furniture, it would look much better than it does now. As it is, the room neither looks like IKEA, nor does it look formal. It just looks strange.
Not THEN or NOW talking about furniture :) ... That was YOUR inference!
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