Obscene Interiors: Hardcore Amateur Decor [Hardcover]

Justin Jorgensen (Author), Todd Oldham (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2004

Tongue-in-cheek critiques of the kitschy, dated, and shockingly bad amateur interior design found in boudoir and personal ad photographs -- with the bodies shaded out. Peruse a random selection of these photographs with professional designers, for a lively critique of these truly Obscene Interiors. With a foreword by designer Todd Oldham.

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About the Author

Justin Jorgensen, born in Fargo, North Dakota, moved to Los Angeles and began working as a designer. In 1999 he created the pop culture based, JustinSpace.com and the hysterical online feature "Obscene Interiors." Now an Internet Provocateur, he has also designed music videos, created theme park attractions and sold candy at the circus. This is his first book.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: Baby Tattoo Books; First Edition edition (May 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 097293880X
• ISBN-13: 978-0972938808
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #147,080 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars brilliantly funny & great gift, April 27, 2004

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Eric Mueller (Los Angeles, baby) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Obscene Interiors: Hardcore Amateur Decor (Hardcover)

besides being snarkily funny, it's a perfect gift-- I've given four away already. check out the author's website (justinspace.com) for a sneak preview of the book.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Can't. Stop. Looking., May 9, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Obscene Interiors: Hardcore Amateur Decor (Hardcover)

What were they thinking?! I mean, I can understand the roguish impulse to shoot naughty pictures of yourself and even to post them on the Internet. I've done it a time or two myself. But those lamps! And that wretched sofa!

This is a delightfully diverting little book. If there's a flaw, it's that it's too short by far. You can't put it down and you can't look away from these decorating disasters so, in the end, you want more, more, more deliciously awful decor to punish your eyes.

Or perhaps I'm just some sort of weird interior design masochist. It's possible.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really, you should buy it., May 31, 2005

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J. Jorgensen - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Obscene Interiors: Hardcore Amateur Decor (Hardcover)

This is my book so I'm not unbiased in my giving it 5 stars, but disregard the inaccurate Amazon description above. Here's the deal: It's a collection of real online male personal ad photos with the figures obscured, and then my critique of the room's decor behind them. Fight Club author, Chuck Palahniuk included Obscene Interiors in his list of Top Ten Books of the past 10 years - Yay! And Dave Eggers had this to say, "Obscene Interiors is not only a cruelly brilliant idea, but it's executed with great cunning and even some warmth."

From the back cover: A first of its kind collection of online male personal ad photos featuring shockingly explicit amateur decorating action! Lamps, plants, curtains and couches mix it up in this graphic display of aesthetic perversion!