Just over a year ago, after my quest to buy readymades proved fruitless, I made some cushions for our living room. I used fabric from Ikea – it wasn’t terribly cheap but was a pleasant weight and the stripes nicely embossed rather than printed. It turns out I wasn’t the only one to think it’d make good cushions.
(Lily thinks they’re good cushions, but I don’t mean her.)
You see, I was casually watching Fresh Meat about six months ago when I saw this – the cushions (or some of them) in the Fresh Meat house are the same as ours.
Coinky-dink, I thought.*
Then last week, I was watching an episode of Girls, first broadcast earlier this year.
It’s not quite so clear in this screenshot but same cushion.
Then last night, an episode of Louie from 2011:
Same frickin’ cushion.
I know my fabric is from the global megabeast Ikea (and suspect now that they sold ready made cushions using it at one time) but seriously.
Please, set designers, have a bit of cushion originality so I don’t feel like such a generic cog in the mass consumption machine. Thanks.
CushionWatch 2014 continues…
* The stranger thing is that in the next scene, in a professor’s office, there was a vintage mirror on the wall – the same model 1970s vintage mirror that we have in our hallway, after buying it from eBay a few years ago. That mirror must have been from the Ikea of the 1970s.
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