For trendy décor, the writing’s on the carpet
1st September 2010
The President’s fashion statement gets no respect across the pond.
I don’t know about you, but I had never considered words on my carpets. Where will it all end? Garage doors with: “Open the gates of new life” (Browning)? A chair with: “Sit thou still when kings are arming” (Scott)? A loo with: “Roses for the flush of youth” (Christina Rossetti)?
It is not that household goods have been quite free from writing. “Bathmat” it says, in a gnomic kind of self-reference, on some bathmats. “Bread” it says on some breadboards, though never “Board”. The next step is the “Welcome” on the doormat.
I have a front door mat that says ‘LEAVE’.