{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Aspirational nostalgia", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/23449294115/", "html": "<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http://barthel.tumblr.com/post/23410717411/aspirational-nostalgia\" target=\"_blank\">barthel</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img height=\"632\" src=\"http://www.cowieandfox.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/ikea_col1.jpg.jpeg\" width=\"426\"/></p>\n<p><img height=\"371\" src=\"/media/Paris-Vs-NYC-6_54ba227010ad.jpg\" width=\"480\"/></p>\n<p><img height=\"500\" src=\"/media/tumblr_m3b8betkL81qzrbmho1_1280_888d90c58ebb.jpg\" width=\"500\"/></p>\n<p>Turning round and round an idea about Instagram/minimalist design/et al as \u201cvirtual Ikea\u201d - replicating in an affordable form the style of a decade the rising generation grew up seeing as cool but unavailable because it was so recent. Not just nostalgia, in other words, but <em>aspirational nostalgia</em>: desiring the things our imagined best selves would have wanted if they were alive 40 years ago.</p>\n</blockquote>", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.comhttp://www.cowieandfox.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/ikea_col1.jpg.jpeg"}