Love Hotel, Japan

turn-ons

 

1: “A good job of body styling should come across like a good musical – no fussing after big, timeless abstract virtues, but maximum glitter and maximum impact.” (Banham, 6)

 

2: “All the more so, when it occurred to me that HdM’s work did not, by virtue of any polemic, force itself on me against my will; rather, like a computer virus, it slipped into my consciousness through my will, eluding any and all resistance as it began to reprogram my architectural thoughts and feelings.” (Kipnis, 23)

 

3: “Kitsch is … one of the invalid sociological and aesthetic techniques concerned with the production and enjoyment of things. … [Kitsch] does not accept the nature of things in the light of their critical or revelatory attributes, but to the extent which they cover and protect, relieve and console.” (276, Gregotti in Kitsch)

 

4: “Another effect: time contracts the sphere of banality. (Banality is, strictly speaking, always a category of the contemporary.) What was banal can, with the passage of time, become fantastic.” (285, Sontag)

 

5: “The design features that made the house into a transference object also elicited consumer desire.” (Lavin, 70)

 

6: “But perhaps the commodity aesthetic has had to keep resisting its own success, since it constantly threatens to make too available items that need to be unique in order to be valued.” (Garber, 98)

 

Done