Word: shapelessness
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the recreation room, that ubiquitous piece of 1970s furniture?the beanbag chair?reappears on the scene. But this time, shapeless blobs are out, and eye-popping new forms and fabrics are in. Designer models are plopping down in lofts, home cinemas, trendy bars, even dining rooms. Here are five you won't want to hide in your closet...
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the recreation room, that ubiquitous piece of 1970s furniture - the beanbag chair - reappears on the scene. But this time, shapeless blobs are out, and eye-popping new forms and fabrics are in. Designer models are plopping down in lofts, home cinemas, trendy bars, even dining rooms. Here are five you won't want to hide in your closet...
...AMBIENT LOUNGE Ditching the "dodgy, shapeless" look, this British company combines old-style comfort with sleek new contours. Curved backs and reclining loungers ("sofas that just happen to have beans in them") - plus 283 L of polystyrene microbeads - make for a blissful way to enjoy a chilled latte or a DVD thriller. ambientlounge.co.uk
Shutting down limbo also aligns nicely with the church's activism on abortion. On last week's Feast of the Holy Innocents--honoring children murdered by the evil King Herod--Pope Benedict XVI emphasized that the embryo is a "full and complete" human being, despite being "shapeless." If you are going to call a fetus' termination murder, then it seems somehow inconsistent to deny heaven to the blameless, full and complete victim...
...litter of the ages. "The prospect towards Delhi, as far as the eye can reach, is covered with the crumbling remains of gardens, pavilions, and burying places," wrote British traveler William Franklin in 1795. "The environs of this once magnificent and celebrated city appear now nothing more than a shapeless heap of ruins...