The Modern Interior

plummeted to her death to the sound of canned laughter. ‘It’s not enough

now to have the latest clothes’, explained the tortured victim of fashion,

frantically flipping the pages of The World of Interiorsand calling in a

medium to help her discover her past lives so that she could see where she

had come from, ‘you have to have the latest interior as well’. ‘Other people

have art, I have my bar’, proclaimed an interviewee in yet another bbc

television programme, Home, aired in 2006 , as he proudly pointed to the

minimal bar counter and stools, made mostly of metal and glass, located

202 in his living room.^28 The mere possession of minimally styled domestic

A bathroom in the Park Hyatt Seoul Hotel designed by Superpotato, 2005.