Subject: Re: Chairs
From: alternat@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Ann Hodgins)
Date: 1991-06-23, 13:40
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Jun21.100225@aifh.ed.ac.uk> bjr@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Brian J Ross) writes:
> >In article <240@eclectic.COM>, justice@eclectic.COM (Hilary K. Justice) writes:
> ># Did anyone else notice a similarity between the chairs in
> ># the "waiting room" and the ones that were knocked around
> ># by the flood of blood from the elevators in _The Shining_?
> >
> >I think Lynch has a phobia of old 1930-era furniture.  _Eraserhead_,
> >_Blue Velvet_, _The Shining_, and _Wild at Heart_ all feature cruddy 
> >furniture.
> >
I agree that Lynch has an emotional relationship with the look of a 
certain era, but I would have guess the 50's.  In the red room of Twin Peaks
and in Wild at Heart, the locations of decay, the degenerating places
are tricked out in the worst examples of tawdry, mouldering 50-60 stuff.
I'm not into the history of interior decorating so I can't tell you the
exact period.
 
a.h.