
So, I'm not sure if anyone else had this issue with Top Design this week, but on my cable package, The Rachel Zoe Project was actual rerunning in the normal Top Design slot, and TD wasn't on until midnight. I love me some fashion, but you all know I love my design shows a lot more.
In this latest episode, the designers were responsible for working in a 12-by-14-foot space with a partner. To find out about their challenge, the designers watched a vintage beta tape brought in by Todd Oldham, with a cartoon explaining the importance of a bomb shelter.
Yes, the designers are building a bomb shelter; I'm not sure if this was supposed to have resonance with the show's air date's close proximity to 9-11, but either way, it was an interesting concept. Given a budget of $6,000 per team, the teams planned for 30 minutes in their bomb shelters, which were gray, concrete, and definitely depressing canvasses for the designers to work with. Many of the designers leaned toward bright, airy, and nature-based colors and designs
Oh my. And some designers revealed their absolute lack of knowledge on issues outside the interior design world. Natalie hypothesized that if the world ended, it would be because, "Like, the Chinese have built the transformers to bomb us back, because they were pissed about the Hiroshima bomb." I hate to be a stickler for details, but Hiroshima was a town in Japan, not China, and transformers deal with voltage, not with bomb making. Maybe she meant these transformers? They do seem dangerous.
To find out who I loved, who won, and who was kicked off, read more.
Not that I'm disappointed in all of the contestants, by any means. I'm actually sort of in love with opera-singing Wisit, who utters such adorable phrases as, "All of my dreams are coming true with this bunker." So cute! I also have a soft spot for Kerry, who described the personal effect of the heat output of 50 candles in a small space as there's "going to be a fat boy on a rotisserie." Jennifer and Robert, who were teamed up for this challenge, and who seemed to have issues with working as team players in the first challenge showed that this was perhaps their modus operandi. Their dysfunction was reflected in feedback from Todd, who was concerned about their bunker becoming "a sad dorm room."
Eddie and Andrea won for their sophisticated, nature-based design, and Wisit and Nathan were a close second. Jennifer was sent home, and in a surprise move (though equally well-deserved), Robert was also thrown off the show.
Who do you think deserved to go? Did you agree with the judges' decisions? And did anyone else notice that the Pop Design challenge seemed to be missing in this episode?
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Wisit is basically effing adorable. I thought almost all the rooms were really great this episode, which is a far cry from the first episode that left me wondering "why am I watching this tragic mess?"
1I'm all for stretching your talent but I did think Jennifer wasn't trasfering her architecture expertise to interior decorating. Glad to see her go. But even better was watching Robert's smug look fall flat when he realized he was joining the exit.
Okay, is Jonathan Adler going to say ja-dorable on every show?
2I completely agreed with the two designers who were kicked off. though Jennifer seemed to be there to learn about interior Design and her personal aesthetic, Robert's absolute shock that he too was going home for not providing any kind of wow factor and for being a complete jerk was my highlight!
3I think I said this last week but seriously...they have all these really talented and experienced designers, and then these 20 year olds who decorated their dorm room with Target furniture and think they can design now. I find the show kinda boring at the moment, but think I will enjoy it more once some of the people are weeded out.
Natalie was...wow. And did you see what she was wearing? Yikes.
I loved Robert's snarky little grin when Jennifer was outed- and then his look when he also got kicked off! Priceless.
4Love Wisit and Nathan!
5This episode was much better than the first. Also, Kelly has the best outfits.
6LOVED the winners and was thhhhhhrilled when that annoying Robert got his comeuppance and got booted. I agree with cocochic, Kelly's whole look always blows me away.
7I actually cheered outloud and threw a triumphant fist in the air when Robert got kicked off. Ha! I guess Andrea was right about karma
The thing is I still dislike Andrea and Eddie a lot! Last night while we were watching, my
mom said "Don't you just want to smack him in the face?" Yes!
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