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RCMP issuing a reminder to drivers to adjust their driving habits for the season.

Mounties were called this morning after a vehicle lost control on Yankee Valley Boulevard and crashed through a concrete fence and into a house on the Eastside of the City.

No injuries were reported and RCMP dont believe impairment was a factor in the crash.

Its believed ice and snow on the road likely contributed to the driver of the small SUV losing control. There's no estimate on how much damage was done to the property or an estimate onthe cost for repairs at this time.

Following a very abrupt end to fall and start to winter-like conditions this past weekend, many drivers were caught unprepared. Auto mechanic shops around Airdrie are booked up with appointments for people looking to switch over to their winter tires. The snow and ice and near 0 temperatures can make the roads extremely slippery asthe melting snow and ice freezes and thaws.

RCMP are reminding drivers to slow down as winter driving conditions are in effect and to adjust their estimated travel times accordingly.

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The long-running dispute over the wrought iron Westlinks golf coursefencemay end with nofenceat all, much to the chagrin of Overland Park neighbors whose homes abut the course.

The city councils Community Development Committee took up the controversy which has been brewing since 2013 once again Wednesday night and ended with a recommendation that the fence be torn out.

Neighbors have been pushing to have the deteriorating fence replaced with a similar-looking, 5-foot black powder-coated steel fence. They have said that type of fence would maintain their property value and the looks of the course.

In the past, council members have discussed the possibility of replacing the steel fence with a chain-link one, or even essentially gifting a new fence and its ongoing maintenance to homeowners by putting it on their side of the property lines.

However those previously-rejected options were not on the table at the Wednesday meeting. Committee members entertained the idea of putting a steel fence up on the city-owned golf course property over the period of several years and paying for it out of golf course revenue. But that motion was voted down. Instead, committee members voted to accept the staff recommendation that no fence is needed.

Cost was the main stumbling block for the four-member majority who voted to do away with the fence. Informal estimates put the steel fence at $355,000 to $450,000.

I am not in good conscience able to pay for a half a million dollarfencefrom the general fund in the middle of a pandemic. I dont feel that is good use of taxpayer money, said Councilmember Holly Grummert. She also objected to paying it out of user fees from the golf course fund because it would cause delays in the long list of other maintenance needed.

Chairman Curt Skoog and Councilmembers Chris Newlin and Tom Carignan also voted against thefencereplacement. At the end of the day, when staff is saying they dont need afenceI just cannot support replacing thefence, Skoog said.

Golf course neighbors have campaigned hard for replacement, saying that they bought their homes with the understanding that the fence would remain. Their position is based on the history of the course.

The nine-hole Westlinks course is an island that is considered part of the Sykes/Lady Golf Course near 125th Street and Quivira Road but is across the street. When it was built in 1984, the developer paid part of the cost of the ironfence, then gradually deeded the course back to the city.

Neighbors in the nearby Nottingham by the Green subdivision have complained that the city should have done better at maintaining thefence. They have opposed chain link as an inferior replacement, but have also been against removal of thefencebecause their back yards would become unprotected and are too close to cart paths. The idea of a replacementfenceon their own land also was a no-go because it would interfere with landscaping and otherfenceconnections.

Im hopeful that in your consideration you will look at that history and the understanding that the homeowners have had for over 25 years, said neighbor Eleanor Snookie Krumbiegel. Were hopeful this will have a good result for us and this can be put to rest.

Council members Stacie Gram and Faris Farassati supported thefencereplacement, with funding flexible from the golf fund, possibly over a few years.

To me it comes down to the issue of fairness, Gram said. Do I want to fund thisfenceright now under our current economic conditions? No. But I think its fair to do so.

There was a promise made to these neighbors when that development was put together and I think that makes it different, she said.

Farassati said the idea was a good balance between the city and the homeowners needs. Eventually the economy will improve and more people will return to a course that is an amenity and revenue source for the city, he said. Its the best solution we have had so far.

Thefenceis now headed for discussion by the full city council.

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The construction of the new fence on the Greek-Turkish border in Evros was the least the government could do to make Greek citizens feel safe who are keeping the countrys morale high at such a difficult moment, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis underlined during his visit to Evros over the weekend.

In March this year, Turkey attempted to asymmetrically invade Greece with the use of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants from Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Turkey had not only falsely told the illegal immigrants that Greeces borders were open, but it also facilitated the transportation of the illegal immigrants and utilized their army to try and tear down Greeces border wall. This damage is currently being repaired.

From February 28 to August 3 this year,over 60,000 illegal immigrants were prevented from entering Greece from the Evros areaon the Greek-Turkish border region.

According toSKAI, many of the illegal immigrants arrested by authorities were seeking political asylum in Greece, claiming they were government officials in Turkey and opponents of the Erdoan government.

The border fence project has a total budget of 62.9 million. It will have a total length of 27 kilometres and eight elevated observatories will be constructed to be used by the Hellenic Army. Moreover, the existing fence will be reinforced with a steel railing measuring 4.3 meters in height, instead of the current 3.5 meters.

The Greek PM noted that the work is advancing rapidly, adding that the project will be completed in April 2021 as planned.

He also had the opportunity to speak to some of the border guards. We would like to thank you for the states support in this difficult task that we have been doing for many years: for the new hiring of colleagues after 18 years. It is really great support for us, said the representative of the border guards, Panagiotis Harelas to the Prime Minister.

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Last weekend was a 3-day-one for federal employees. Because Monday was a bank holiday. Yet it seems that this doesnt go for everybody employed by the United States Postal Service (USPS). I saw several USPS vehicles in different parts of the region on Sunday. And my heart went out to their drivers because here I was headed for lunch and their family had to have Sunday lunch without them.

On Tuesday, I headed for the Lakewood post office shortly after lunch. I wanted to mail a calendar that one of my readers had won in a give-away activity on my public Facebook page. And a handwritten letter to my father, who is currently recovering from surgery in a German sanitorium. There was a line in the lobby of the postal office that reached to the doors. No way would that deter my determination to send off the gift or the letter.

It was a very interesting experience to stand in that line. Normally, Id have expected some annoyed commenting. But this time, everybody was strangely quiet. People kept their distance, and all wore masks. If somebody needed help, such as being pointed to the mailbox, they were accommodated. Inside the business area, there was laughter at the counters. The employees treated every customer with kindness and patience, interspersed with good humor. And getting some very pretty, new Forever stamps added to my pleasant experience.

What was interesting to me was that the one bank holiday had such an impact on the frequency of the post office. It was as if everybody had had the same idea of packing boxes and writing letters over the weekend. And, of course, a lot couldnt be mailed off on Monday. Well, I might want to avoid Mondays and Fridays as well as days after a holiday in the future in order to avoid standing in a line especially in Covid times. But these postal employees cant. They will be seeing these lines every Monday, Friday, and day after a holiday. And this is only their receiving end.

The delivery end is what I saw last Sunday. If there is an extra-load of boxes and envelopes, these people are out on the road even when they should have their day off. Tuesday started off with some thunderstorm from hell, heavy rain, and wind gusts that were ripping off big branches from trees. Did this deter the postal employees from delivering our mail? No. Because they keep doing their work rain or shine, in blistering summer heat, during wet storms, and in bitingly cold weather. When their load is extra-big, they deliver until their work is done. Shortly before I started writing this article, I found somebody on Facebook reporting from Steilacoom that their mail had been delivered around 1930 h on Tuesday. I keep thinking that by that time, I had had a cozy dinner with my husband already, and was chatting with him over a glass of wine very leisurely. And some postal employee was still out there doing their job!

The holiday season is coming up. Ill be sending out a whole lot of cards and Christmas gifts in a while. Postal lines will be insanely long, as everybody will be doing the same. Maybe even more than ever, in Covid times, as letters and gifts are a sign that we care about our loved ones who are far away, whom we may not even be able to visit. I should hope that we remember that postal employees are at the receiving end when we bring them our load. We are sending out loving thoughts to our loved ones dont let us do it with impatience or anger against the postal employees, who are trying to keep ahead of the constant flow of mail. And lets wait graciously for our mail if we have to wait. We are in the coziness of our homes while somebody out there is fighting the elements and foregoes the comfort of a family meal to deliver their task.

There are countless other essential workers out there who do theirs so we are seen to in our needs and whims. They have the same needs and whims as we, only theirs might get seen to later. If at all. If we put ourselves into their shoes, we can make their world a little friendlier, too. Even if there is a long line between them and us.

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A senior director in the public works department admits: In terms of war, we are fragile

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19 October 2020 - 18:07 Tom Eaton

Throwing an entire ministry under the bus is difficult at the best of times, but for senior members of the ANC it comes with an almost impossibly long list of challenges: asking taxi bosses for permission to appear in public next to a bus, finding a bus, extinguishing it ...

And thats before the inevitable tender process for identifying the company that will do the actual throwing, usually a catering firm created eight days earlier whose postal address is a wheelie-bin in an abandoned lot apparently owned by two people, one of whom died in 1968, while the other was born last Wednesday.

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Earlier this year, Schumacher quietly acquired the digital assets of erstwhile online design platform Homepolish, which went under in September 2019. This morning, the company launched a new website (and rebranded Homepolishs social media accounts) to announce the debut of Freddie, a to-be-developed membership community for interior designers that aims to amplify the to-the-trade industry by encouraging consumers to engage with decorators. (The name is a playful nod to Frederic Schumacher, who founded the New Yorkbased design house in 1889.)

The new brands development has been spearheaded by Schumacher president and CEO Timur Yumusaklar and creative director Dara Caponigro, along with Stephen Puschel, the fifth-generation owner of F. Schumacher & Co., which includes Schumacher and rug and carpet brand Patterson Flynn Martin. The three also brought on Homepolish founder Noa Santos as an adviser, and he has helped shape Freddie around Homepolishs original purpose while offering guidance on how to sidestep some of the challenges his company faced.

I still very much believe in what we were doing with Homepolishthe mission of helping designers build their business by helping them find clients, Santos tells Business of Home. I also want to make sure that Freddie is set up for as much success as possible, and that it is not falling into the same potholes that [Homepolish] might have fallen in over the years[because] Im intimately familiar with those potholes.

The Freddie homepageJoinFreddie.com

Founded in 2012 by Santos and early Buzzfeed employee Will Nathan, Homepolish offered designers a steady stream of leads, marketing muscle, and back-office support. In exchange, the company kept a percentage of the designers hourly rates. At the time, its approachespecially its embrace of clear pricing and entry-level budgetswas revelatory in an industry that largely chases only the biggest projects. For several years, it worked well: Designers built healthy businesses with Homepolishs leads, and clients were happy. But by 2016, facing mounting competition from well-funded online competitors that had entered the scene, the company announced a $20 million round of funding. The resulting pressure to turn a profit, fast, led the company to implement unpopular featuresan unwieldy project management tool designers had little incentive to use, a hastily built platform matching clients with contractors, and a more restrictive contract structure. Running low on cash, Santos looked to raise another round of funding to keep the company afloat, but a deal never materialized and Homepolish shuttered dramatically last fall, leaving many designers owed thousands of dollars for their work.

In the aftermath of Homepolishs collapse, Santos went looking for the right buyer for the companys most valuable assetsan Instagram account with 1.8 million followers, a robust presence on Pinterest, and email newsletter lists reaching both designers and consumers. (A Marker story in February suggested that one early model he considered was a subscription service where designers and clients pay to be matched.) Once the partnership with Schumacher was secured, Freddie was developed throughout the spring and summer, in part in reaction to the dramatic ways COVID has reshaped consumer thinking.

Whats wonderful about having Schumacher as a partner is that it is in stark contrast to the venture-funded history we had, says Santos. Obviously we want to make money, but there arent the same expectations that come with venture capital funding. The sense that this is something thats meant to be built slowly and with carein the spirit of the original Homepolish, when we were self-fundedis why I was particularly excited to find this partnership.

While the vision for Freddie is in place, the specifics of its development are still in flux. In its first phase, the brands landing page invites designers to request an invitation for membership. In return, Freddies initial offering includes exposure on its social media platforms and in email newsletters. Future additions to the platform will likely include a matchmaking tool to more directly connect designers with potential clients, as well as community-building features that enable designers to pick up business best practices from one another. What were trying to do is start low and iterate, listening to the participants on the platform, says Santos. In the beginning, were using the assets to help designers generate business. The obvious best way for us to do that is with our marketing channels.

The work of Freddies three founding membersdesigners Paloma Contreras, Celerie Kemble and Mark D. Sikesis currently showcased on a page dedicated to featured members, but Yumusaklar says he expects members to ultimately range from emerging to established designers. Once we launch, well have a really exciting group [of founding members] to help us make the whole community a real success, he says. Helping decorators build out their businesses will help them to strengthen the industry at large. Not everybody has the time or resources to build [a social media following] out themselves, so I feel we can be very helpful as a great starting point.

Its a concept that has precedent. Homepolish in its heyday provided a launchpad for designers who are now inching toward stardom, from Ariel Okin to Orlando Soria. And though Freddie is launching without much of the back-end operations that powered Homepolish, its marketing capabilities remain powerful tools. One of the things we did particularly well with Homepolish was to understand how these platforms all interact with each otherhow, through the customer journey, someone is first exposed, and then they see it again and again, explains Santos. On average, it takes being exposed to something five times before you convert. So the idea is: How do you create that multi-touch experience that gets the person who is thinking about doing their kitchen in six months to actually reach out?

Throughout its many incarnations, one of Homepolishs greatest strengths was clarity for consumers: The company established an uncomplicated path to finding, hiring and working with a designer. It also acted as a custodian through a stressful process, offering the security of knowing that there was a larger company involved to manage billing and referee misunderstandings. Without that standardization or perceived guarantee, however, the path to consumer confidence will likely be more complicated.

The most important thing is to keep it focused and simple, adds Yumusaklar. Were not in the business of losing money, but this is coming from a place of strengthening our industry rather than [us] figuring out how we can make the most money off it. The main idea is that were building a great community and a great stage. Thats our mission, and thats what connects us to the mission of Homepolish when it started out, which was to empower designers and provide the necessary resources.

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Left: Timur Yumusaklar Courtesy of Schumacher | Right: Noa Santos Julia Robbs

While Freddies membership fee is expected to generate some revenue, its founders say theres no external pressure to fast-track profit-driving initiatives on the platform. In fact, Yumusaklar is just as adamant about what Freddie will not become as he is about its potential. For example, unlike Homepolish, Freddie will remove itself from the design process once it links a designer with a client, and the platform will not take a cut of the designers fee. He is also adamant that the site will not evolve into a project management tool or a marketplace, and that it wont be another marketing vehicle for the Schumacher brand. Its very much open for other brandswell definitely post images of everybodys product, says Yumusaklar. Santos agreed that, in general, the accounts Instagram followers may not even notice a shift beyond the name change: The channel will stay by and large almost identically what it was, which was promoting designers work.

Freddies basic business mission to help designers is not a new one. Its current model recalls Dering Halls original business plan, which, when it was founded in 2011, promised designers exposure, help getting projects published and a listing in an online directory in exchange for a membership fee. The matchmaking component has also gained digital legs of late: Several membership-based platforms have debuted in the past year, from Estee Stanleys agency, The Eye, to Interior Collab, a nonprofit founded by former Homepolish designers after the platform went offline, which has grown into a collective of nearly 30 firms.

But Freddie is certainly a product of the current climate, motivated in part by an underlying concern that consumers are increasingly turning to online resources and major retailersfrom Wayfair to West Elm to RHfor design inspiration and expertise. As it presents viable alternatives to well-known retail options on a consumer-facing platform, Yumusaklar sees Freddie as a big-picture play that helps trade brands by supporting their customers (designers) in attracting their customers (consumers) in hopes that designers will keep shopping. Its a giant sales pitch on behalf of every decoratortelling homeowners why they should hire a designer to save them time, finding them better prices and exclusive goods, and preventing them from making costly mistakes.

Despite the challenges, educating would-be clientsand helping them find the right designeris certainly a worthy goal. After all, for every homeowner out there who hires a decorator for a full-service project, there are hundreds more who dont realize a designer could help themand who have no sense of how much the resulting project would cost. (Santos says that Homepolish once conducted a survey to understand consumer expectations when it came to spending on their homes. The result? Respondents indicated that they expected a fully designed living room to cost $1,500a figure so off-base that the company never released the surveys findings.)

Santos says that ultimately, Freddies goal isnt just to get jobs for designers, but rather to help reframe the way designers are perceived in the culture of home. If you just see a designer as just an avenue to get a sofa, theres not a lot [of opportunity] there in the long run, because technology will supplant it, he says. But if you see a designer like an artist or a therapisttheres a reason why they havent been replaced by software. Away doesnt sell luggage, they sell the promise of travel. I think the conversation in the industry needs to move from design being a functional and aesthetic exercise to it being a life experience.

Homepage photo: A project by David Kaihoi, featured in a recent issue of Schumachers biannual magazine, Bulletin | Francesco Lagnese, courtesy of Schumacher

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Nobility Crest, a 55+ luxury condominium community in Ocean Township, recently announced the opening of Building 6 with only limited opportunities remaining in Building 5. To learn more or to schedule a one-on-one or virtual appointment, call 732-361-4982 or visit http://www.NobilityCrest55.com. All in-person appointments will follow all state-mandated guidelines to guarantee the safety of staff and future residents.

If the benefits of new construction appeal to you, now is the time to make your move and receive the best pricing on the remaining homes in Building 5 and learn about the last new opportunities available in Building 6, said Robert Adinolfi, Chief Operating Officer at Renaissance Properties.

Building 6 is the final building that will ultimately complete the 198-unit Nobility Crest. This new building features one- and two-bedroom home designs including some new model types priced from the mid $300s. All homes highlight open living spaces, spacious master suites, and appealing, designer-selected finishes. In addition, each home comes with an assigned parking spot and storage space in a secure, well-lit enclosed garage that enjoys elevator access to and from each floor.

Just minutes from Asbury Park Beach and Boardwalk, Nobility Crest at Ocean Township also features exciting onsite amenities that can be enjoyed year-round. The community showcases a low-maintenance lifestyle with access to a 4,300 sq. ft. Lifestyle Center with a fitness center, business center, lounge, library, large multi-purpose room, media room, billiard and card rooms. Each new building will also add either a club room with billiards, a fitness room or an all-purpose room. For those with furry friends, a new dog park will also be constructed onsite.

Following a $1M redesign and renovation of Nobility Crests pool and amenity area, residents spent the summer taking advantage of all that the community has to offer with a beach-entry pool, sundeck, shaded pergolas, barbeque areas, fire pit and more. This community offers the carefree lifestyle our savvy buyers have worked for, said Adinolfi.

In addition to ample onsite amenities, the Jersey Shore location of Nobility Crest put owners at the center of it all. Nearby shopping includes everything from groceries at Shop Rite just 1.3 miles away to incredible deals on world-famous designer goods at the Jersey Shore Premium Outlets less than three miles away. Need some beach therapy? Make a quick left onto Route 66 and youll be at the Asbury Park Beach and Boardwalk in under four miles. The community also offers easy access from both Route 18 and the Garden Parkway.

Nobility Crest is located at 7 Centre Street in Ocean Township. Take Route 66 to Cedar Village Boulevard, enter 0827 on the Call Box for the salesperson to open the gate and make a left on Centre Street. To learn more, visit http://www.NobilityCrest55.com or email nobilitycrestinfo@renaprop.com. The Sales Center is now open, schedule an appointment from 10am to 5pm daily. To learn more, please call 732-361-4982.

About Renaissance Properties Since its creation nearly 30 years ago, Renaissance Properties has evolved from a small real estate brokerage company to a multi-faceted real estate development firm and home builder with over 1,000 new homes and nearly 800,000 square feet of commercial space to its credit. The dedicated team at Renaissance Properties works tirelessly to ensure quality, integrity and customer satisfaction in all its endeavors. With distinctive designs and accommodating layouts, new home buyers and tenants alike are delighted with the product offered by Renaissance Properties. To learn more, visit https://www.renaissanceprop.com/.

About Blue Star Group With over 80 years of combined experience in home building excellence and customer satisfaction, the Blue Star Group, LLC is recognized as one of Staten Islands foremost builders. Since its inception in 1976, Blue Star has received continual acclaim both from homebuyers and respected industry associations. Blue Stars standards are set at the highest levels of home design, building materials and craftsmanship to consistently deliver on its promise of bringing the best value to its deserving customers.

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The pared-down, ascetic Kinfolk look had a long run, with its muted colors and Scandinavian minimalism. But thankfully, after overstaying its welcome as the de facto "Millennial aesthetic" and peaking with the unappealing drabness of spaces like Kim and Kanye's confusing minimalist mansion, it's dying out.

The tides appear to be changing in favor of more lived-in, colorful places where you'd actually want to spend time and abandon the unrealistically neat, all-white spaces where you would live in constant fear of spilling your coffee. Now, homes on Instagram actually look fun again, as blank walls and concrete give way to maximalist combinations of colors and shapes on popular interior design accounts like @getclever, @2LGstudio, and @__sitio. We need levity anywhere we can get it right now, and as a result, we want homes that look playful, personal, and generally more visually interestingand wiggly lines and colorful, freeform blobs are just about as different from bare white walls as you can get.

Instagram has become inundated with artists and sellers embracing this goofy, expressive play on form. From sellers with names like Lotta Blobs and Wiggle Room, there are curvy mirrors shaped like amoebae and others surrounded by squiggles, chunky or thin; wiggly tables whose edges undulate without a single corner; couches shaped like puzzle pieces or oversized organs; pillows bent into chubby knots; and plump, cloudlike candles. Now, it seems, we need blobs more than ever.

In 2018, New York Magazine declared that "the future of design is chubby," describing the look of "elephantine" chunky shapes, and examining the shift from the angular, geometric shapes of the early 2010s to rise of the blob and its cartoonish compatriots. Vox highlighted the rise of the "blobject" as home decor that same year, with writer Eliza Brooke concluding that the soft, childlike nature of blobs conveyed a sense of comfort particularly useful in times of turmoil. As the world has gotten more tumultuous, the proliferation of blobs certainly has increased, judging by the looks of trendy home boutiques and interior design inspiration pages. By last year, blobs had taken over restaurant design, according to Eater. And amid the ups and downs of 2020, blobs continue to dominate: not just as a passing trend, but more and more, as a balm for our troubled times.

Looking at a blob like the popular, pudgy, vaguely anthropomorphic Goober candle, designed by New York design firm Talbot & Yoon in 2015, calls to mind a different set of emotions than, say, reading one's Twitter feed, Brooke wrote. Indeed, there is a nonchalantyet also personal and curatednature to blobby, curvy design. A break from the previous image of Instagram-friendly home perfection, it suggests a lack of fuss and even a bit of childishness. Mark Talbot, the co-founder of co-founder of Talbot & Yoon, said the Goobers could be conceived as "toys for adults," though in the product's early days, he recalled, some people read into that concept quite literally, with shoppers at flea markets comparing the Goober to a sex toy and suggesting that it was "perverse" to sell it publicly. It's no surprise that given the state of the world today, with so many of us longing for a little bit of comfort and levity, the homes of young creative types continue to fill with notebook doodle-like decor in all manner of shapes wiggly, squiggly, curvy, and blobby.

The Goober candle's continued appealand that of blobby design in generalmight have to do with what we as viewers can map onto blobs, Talbot suggested. We can read gaiety into a bright splash of color, relaxation into a mirror's melting form, and even laziness into the languid curve of a Goober, so instead of being another object in a home, blobs can feel like entities; in fact, each Goober was based on an expression: grumpy, happy, promiscuous. "There's already a lot going on in the world and it's a very chaotic place, but if you have these kinds of objects that you can attach some kind of emotional resonance [to], or you feel some kind of emotional resonance with, then you continue to enjoy them," he said.

As people spend more time at home, they're finding new ways of nesting, as writer Amanda Mull recently described in The Atlantic. If we have to be at home, we might as well make our surroundings more enjoyable. Industrial designers Jazmin Feige and Matias Gonzalez, based in Paris and Buenos Aires respectively, started the design goods brand Bougie Woogie in response to the shift in how we're using our homes. Their made-to-order objects, which include blobby, rounded mirrors and pedestals with curved edges like dripping slime, are meant to make people smile. Though Feige noticed a boom in curvy, blobby home decor over the past few years, she's seen even more interest this year. "As people weren't able to go out, they decided to start dressing their homes," she said. "Our project was born because of that, because we said, OK, we are at home, we want to be happy in this complicated context."

Feige traced the curvy blob aesthetic to the Milan-based Memphis Group, whose work in the 1980s using squiggles, laminate, bright colors, and strong shapes not only subverted the status quo of sleek, minimalist design, but also came to define the look of the decade. At its inception, Memphis design was seen as a radical departure from tradition and a break from ideas of "good taste," according to Curbed.

Because trends are cyclical, the style's appeal has made a comeback these last few years. But today's curvy, blobby design looks simultaneously nostalgic and also of the moment; Feige, for example, brings a modern twist through slow design. "Every change of decade is super extreme. Things happen for some reason, and it's not an exception right now," she said. Memphis design was disruptive and necessary during a complex social moment, she added, like the one the world is experiencing now. Amid chaos, the arts are a way of reacting. Art historian Mara Holt Skov, who curated the San Jose Museum of Art's "Blobjects & Beyond: The New Fluidity in Design" exhibit with late husband Steven Skov Holt in 2005, told Vox that although the "golden age of blobjects" has ended, the "human need for comfort, especially at home, is never going to change." To her, blobby forms will always have interest because they shift to people's needs.

After years of decor dominated by starkness and palettes of white, beige, and light wood, people might feel even more of a pull to things big, bold, and colorful, with minimalism's mathematical lines giving way to the freeness of waves and squiggles. While minimalism is quiet, blobby designs are expressive. But perhaps unlike the 80s, when Memphis's loud look subsumed other aesthetics, the current moment's blobby, curvy designs can be combined with minimalist ones to give an interior a dose of character.

"The most untrendy thing is to have a too matched home, like some years ago when all people talked about having a 'hotel feeling' and all colors, pillows and details were very matched," said Stockholm-based furniture designer Gustaf Westman, whose curvy mirrors and tables add levity to simple rooms. Especially for generations who care about sustainability, that heavy-handed aesthetic can be associated with an overreliance on fast trends. "So the reverse to that type of interior needs to be weird colors that don't fit together, shapes that stand out, and things that feel more personal in some way." It's easy to peg curvy or blobby design as a fleeting obsession, but Feige thinks it's more than that: a jolt of joy when things feel bleak. "It's kind of a solution that people try to find to feel better," she said. Blobby design is up to your own interpretation, which is perhaps why it's soothing. There's no right answer as to why a blob calls to you, and a blob can be somethingor it can just be a blob. The world is harsh and sharp; blobs, meanwhile, are loose and free.

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