As you might surmise from the title, I tend to be less than impressed with interior designers who work with unlimited budgets. Give anyone with half an aesthetic unlimited cash and they are sure to come up with something intereting. Case in point is the home of interior designer Sirin Masri in Amman, Jordan pictured above. I say "home" because it looks like a home, even though her family lives in another house across town. Sirin's father owns most of the 5 star hotels in Jordan, so needless to say the family is extremely wealthy. This home was an exercise in interior design for Sirin, and no expense was spared, from the leather floors in the bedroom, to the imported slate and copper in the family room. It is a very nice space that must have cost millions to design. I'm more impressed when designers work with strict budgets, and even more so when they make their abilities available to the common man. In the end, aesthetics are important, and people of all means should be able to live somewhere that feels good. I guess that makes me an aesthetic socialist.
You would only be an aesthetic socialist if you let your all-powerful ruling designer take your snazzy belongings and redistribute them to folks whom have less of a natural aesthetic ability...
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