Keyword results: Kitsch
We know that it’s rude to point. But when you wind up in a foreign land without the local tongue, pointing might save you from a world of trouble. Case in point, Dieter Graf Verlag’s Point It, a collection of universally recognised images that talk for you.
These pictures say a thousand words that many of us can’t so that next time you want to find the local youth hostel/train station/nudist beach just whip out the passport-sized picture bible from your knapsack, and make like ET (i.
They may not be Vivienne Westwood clad Harajuku girls, but these Japanese fruits are just as worthy of a place on the coffee table or a place in Gwen Stefani’s posse.
Behold a set of six fruity coasters that will never sour, have no pips and certainly won’t allow for any water marks on your furniture.
It seems that the kitsch movement brought with it personality crises for many every day objects. Sofas became beds. Lamps became naked ladies holding oversized and precariously placed petals. Even skirts became shorts, disguising themselves as skirts and calling themselves 'skorts'.
If you like your knick knacks straight up, then this radio's for you.
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