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This was Kitsch Korner's first entry. I found this book at, where else, a second-hand bookshop near my work. The shop is, sadly, no longer there (or maybe not so sadly - the owner chain-smoked, so everything stank and it was perhaps little surprise when the shop burnt down one day :/)
Nevertheless, this treasure lives on here as the store's testament.
- My jaw dropped, my eyes glittered, my co-worker regarded me cautiously.
- Yes indeed...I still haven't quite put my finger on what it is about this cover that makes me...so *eager*...so *sure* that the contents will present a treasury of tasteful home decorating delights that say to all your visiting friends 'YES!...I am WITH it on the bright modern highway to heaven as I display my Still-Life-With-Pipecleaners-and-Sellotape!'
- Must be that stoned ostrich.
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- Anyway, this booklet was published in 1959, obviously in response to the 'Aluminium the Wonder Metal' craze, to show the masses that in addition to being useful in pioneering lightweight industrial construction, one could waste literally MILES of the stuff in making crappy craft monstrosities and calling them 'decoration'
- If it was a book made purely for kids, fine. Encouraging kids to be creative with whatever is at hand is good. It would still retain a modicum of respectability, but no....the horrors await.
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