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3eb7988a1663today at 7:03 PM5 repliesview on HN

Ehh, I find it difficult to distinguish between "taste" and "money". The shelving alone is a "contact us for pricing" situation. Premium items coupled with a too-clean-to-be-used work environment and natural light can do a significant lift in the "taste" department.


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throwaway219450today at 8:03 PM

It reminds me a little of set dressing in movies. Every sophisticated character owns a chemex, but they use a french press to make coffee onscreen. Harks back to the days of Notting Hill when we had to believe that Hugh Grant ran a failing second hand bookstore while living in a well-decorated house in central London. Do we think the author uses his Teenage Engineering pocket operators, or are they window dressing? Do we need Godel, Escher and Bach as the backdrop for a completely unrelated photo?

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nine_ktoday at 8:59 PM

I know a person with a very good taste; his apartment is even emptier and cleaner than this. He's actually good at his job. Some people just find it actually comfortable. I'm not one of them, but these are real people, not posers.

Symbiotetoday at 7:32 PM

Prices are on the linked page, or in a full price list PDF it links to.

(Though the fetishisation of this shelving seems weird. Maybe as I grew up in the UK, but I associate it with every single public and office building. Every library, every office, every school. It's not what I'd choose for home.)

https://www.vitsoe.com/us/606/components

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bayindirhtoday at 8:29 PM

There’s a chasm between them. I have seen people create great things with no money, and people who slaughtered spaces because they don’t have an eye for anything.

yjftsjthsd-htoday at 7:12 PM

On the contrary, there's lots of expensive stuff that's horrifyingly terrible taste. There might be some connection, but they're separate