My wife and I visited Missouri Mouse Antiques, a local antique mall, searching for a door stop. As we browsed, my wife saw a hanging, macrame (?) lampshade and commented How an ugly lampshare! My immediate response: A sad statement on American design sensibilities.
And those poor design sensibilities are what powers antique malls and stores: room upon room of someone’s treasured possession that shows the absolute worst in American possession-driven obsessions. Absolute garbage and crap. Perhaps one person in ten thousand might be tempted, but few antique malls/stores see ten thousand visitors in a year.
And even if suddenly sales were booming, there are acres of public storage unit with the next generation of crap to sell! Uggh.
