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Tanuki

(16,446 posts)
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 01:07 PM Nov 2025

The Victoria and Albert Museum on Trump's decorating style:

(To be fair, they didn't mention him by name, but if the shoe fits...)

https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/rococo?srsltid=AfmBOopz8Je1Zd76n5ontX2WXnsJfiDciyCmcHmwW480jW_p6_te2gHh



"Rococo emerged in France in the 1720s and remained the predominant design style until it fell out of fashion in the 1770s. Excessively flamboyant and characterised by a curved asymmetric ornamentation and a use of natural motifs, Rococo was a style without rules. Compared to the order, refinement and seriousness of the Classical style, Rococo was seen as superficial, degenerate and illogical."

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The Victoria and Albert Museum on Trump's decorating style: (Original Post) Tanuki Nov 2025 OP
Superficial, degenerate + illogical ultralite001 Nov 2025 #1
Rocuckcoo! tanyev Nov 2025 #2
"Fell out of fashion in the 1770's" GopherGal Nov 2025 #3
Superficial, degenerate, and illogical. 3catwoman3 Nov 2025 #4
I'm betting the designer for trump's White House makeover went home laughing every night, Bayard Nov 2025 #5
OMG, thank you for posting this. TNNurse Nov 2025 #6
trump is as good a decorator as he is a president. (nt) Paladin Nov 2025 #7
I really love this style with all the gold ! KS Toronado Nov 2025 #8
How perfect JMCKUSICK Nov 2025 #9
"They build it up just to burn it back down" 0rganism Nov 2025 #10
..... Tanuki Nov 2025 #11
More Tanuki Nov 2025 #12

ultralite001

(2,551 posts)
1. Superficial, degenerate + illogical
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 01:13 PM
Nov 2025

Says it all…

Is there a classification for it under mental health disorders???

GopherGal

(2,905 posts)
3. "Fell out of fashion in the 1770's"
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 01:51 PM
Nov 2025

Hmmm. What else fell out of fashion around then?

Took another 15 years or so for Marie Dontionette's predecessor to follow suit.

Bayard

(29,679 posts)
5. I'm betting the designer for trump's White House makeover went home laughing every night,
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 02:33 PM
Nov 2025

Or, maybe crying in disgust. Who knows?

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