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<p>[QUOTE="bluemoon, post: 342876, member: 1296"]I'm beyond tired of everyone gloating about these things like it's something that has never happened before. It's just fashion and in 20 years the mid-century modern furniture could well end up in the bin again. Look at the '50s and '60s and how 20 years later the 1980's had a completely different look.</p><p><br /></p><p>People like things when they're fashionable and hate them once they're "out", because they probably didn't really like them to begin with. Just followed a fashion for the sake of it. It's odd how most of us only see value in something once it's been validated by a trend, celebrity or a movie. Steamer trunks? Wasn't it just trendy 5 years ago to make those into coffee tables?</p><p>Trends are necessary but does it have to mean everything else always loses its value?</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe just once people could be rational and not be in a frenzy of accumulating only the latest trend item and throwing in the bin what's not trendy. There's so much more than in / out thinking would have one decorating with.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bluemoon, post: 342876, member: 1296"]I'm beyond tired of everyone gloating about these things like it's something that has never happened before. It's just fashion and in 20 years the mid-century modern furniture could well end up in the bin again. Look at the '50s and '60s and how 20 years later the 1980's had a completely different look. People like things when they're fashionable and hate them once they're "out", because they probably didn't really like them to begin with. Just followed a fashion for the sake of it. It's odd how most of us only see value in something once it's been validated by a trend, celebrity or a movie. Steamer trunks? Wasn't it just trendy 5 years ago to make those into coffee tables? Trends are necessary but does it have to mean everything else always loses its value? Maybe just once people could be rational and not be in a frenzy of accumulating only the latest trend item and throwing in the bin what's not trendy. There's so much more than in / out thinking would have one decorating with.[/QUOTE]
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