My Fantasy Modernist Life

Everyone has a secret fantasy career that they daydream about while sitting in their cubicle pretending to do their real job. (Or in my case sitting at home in front of my computer pretending to write their dissertation.) In Kara-fantasy-world, I travel the globe discovering and buying hip modern furniture and design products for an upscale modernist design store and wealthy clients. And on the side I also write freelance travel articles about all the "so cool it won't be cool by the time you read this" places I go to on said travels, since up-and-coming designers only hang out in the coolest local cafes, bars, and restaurants. Basically I want a *Wallpaper magazine life. (I don't think anyone actually lives this kind of jetsetter, uber-hipster, design-junkie life. The magazine just creates the image of this lifestyle and sells issues based on the idea that you can feel like you live a small part of it just by consuming their product. Brilliant.)

So with that in mind, I've been drooling over pictures from the annual Cologne International Furnishings Show posted on Mocoloco (one of my favorite modern design blogs). The most unique so far is the Bratespiel, a pop-style small appliance that can roast marshmallows (as well as sausages since. Come on, this is Germany). I would have absolutely no use for this, but it looks so cool (thus defeating the tenant of much modern design of form AND function).

In my fantasy work life, right now I'd be in the middle of a couple weeks of down-time in DC before jetting off to Palm Springs for their annual Modernism Show and Modernism Week. Now if I can only find someone to hire me . . .