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Would You Put This Sculpture Outside Your Home?

CasaSugar — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:00:00 -0700

American Apparel CEO Dov Charney's Los Angeles home is pretty unmistakable due to the giant sculpture that flips all of downtown LA off, greeting guests as they approach his front door. I wouldn't call it the most tasteful pièce de résistance, but for the head of a company whose ads are nearly pornographic, I'd say it's fitting. What do you think? Would you put this sculpture outside your home?
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Decorating Your Home With American Flags, Inside and Out

CasaSugar — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:30:02 -0700

Title 4, Chapter 1, Section 8, (d) of the US Flag Code maintains that the American flag, "should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free." However, sometimes interior designers and patriotic home decorators hang the flag indoors with the best of intentions. Check out some homes that decorate with American flags, and tell me which ones you like!
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Open House: Flags as Drapery

CasaSugar — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:30:42 -0700

According to Title 4, Chapter 1, Section 8, (d) of the US Flag Code, the American flag, "should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free." But Austin's Hotel St. Cecilia has used Old Glory as drapery on hospital tracking here in a bedroom suite, and I applaud the look. To me, a flag displayed nearly anywhere (so long it's in one piece) looks patriotic. But some of you - and the authors of the code - may disagree. Then again, there are plenty of tiny US codes and laws that I don't follow (oops), so should this one matter? Tell me your thoughts below. Do you approve of this use of the flag as drapery? Have you done something similar in your own home? Or are you against it?
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Karim Rashid Wears Only Two Colors

CasaSugar — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:00:28 -0700

New York magazine recently profiled five New Yorkers who only wear one color, all day, every day. Industrial designer Karim Rashid, a Designer Spotlight, was one of them. Rashid wears white half the time, and pink half the time; somehow the pink doesn't surprise me.
Here are some of my favorite quotes from the interview:

Rashid on why he wears all white:

In college, I was obsessed with wearing all white. I felt angelic and free. But then, in the early eighties, I started wearing black. That was status quo in the avant-garde. If you were interesting - a designer, an architect - you wore all black.

On why he also wears pink:

Sometimes I think it’s because my mother dressed me in pink when I was a child. She wanted me to be a girl.

On whether or not he wears pink underwear:

The only place in the world that sells men’s pink underwear is American Apparel.

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