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<h1 id='title'>Fireplace jokes</h1>
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<time datetime='Thu, 9 Feb 2023 19:00:00 CST'>9 Feb 2023, 7:00 PM</time>
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My brother and I went to the library the other week.
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While there, I looked through an interior design book titled <a href='https://thamesandhudson.com/the-iconic-interior-1900-to-the-present-9780500023334'><i>The Iconic Interior: 1900 to the Present</i></a>.
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The excellent photography in the book is by Richard Powers.
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Overall, I enjoyed the book.
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With architecture photobooks, there are always some things that make me say “hmm...” or “ugh!” or “meh”, but there were plenty of really beautiful & cool spaces as well.
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As I get older, I find my taste in such things gets stronger, in that I know better what I like & dislike, so it was fun to peruse & react to all the different styles.
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One funny thing I noticed in the book was a lot of clearly non-functional fireplaces.
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I’m sure some of them were real fireplaces that were simply no longer used, and thus got redecorated.
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But some of the more modern ones were just holes in the wall or mantels that were clearly never meant to be a functional fireplace.
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One of the funniest was just an all-white shelf that had glass & ceramic doohickeys instead of logs.
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<img src='img/firejacks.webp' width='468' height='222' />
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<figcaption>I couldn’t find the one from the book, but the doohickeys were like this.</figcaption>
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I like to call these “fireplace jokes”.
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They’re kind of a pun on the grammar of interior design.
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These spaces have no need for the function of a fireplace, but the form of one is useful as an aesthetic focal point even without the function.
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The irony of including something that looks like a fireplace in a building that has no need for one and couldn’t possibly be heated by one is very funny to me.
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There are some good examples of fireplace jokes on <a href='https://www.richardpowersphoto.com/'>Richard Powers’ website</a>.
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I can’t include them inline with the article without infringing on his copyright, so I’ll just list links to them here:
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<li><a href='https://www.richardpowersphoto.com/interiors/2020/3/7/gd2xq4k0qeikiuqx6pp3hgmcopb489'>On the left</a>, just a strange metal box in a hole</li>
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<li><a href='https://www.richardpowersphoto.com/interiors/2020/3/23/i1e2oqpblfhmzbjjjbm79dfbzga8b1'>Baloon animal fire</a></li>
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<li><a href='https://www.richardpowersphoto.com/interiors/l74zlbqpxbha5k54y1ly3do5scwkrg'>Space age trash chute</a></li>
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And here are a few more I found on Architectural Digest:
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<li><a href='https://media.architecturaldigest.com/photos/636c5c0427e3bef3956e2688/master/w_1600,c_limit/BJD%20-%20Julie%20Soefer.jpg'>Crystals instead of fire</a></li>
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<li><a href='https://media.architecturaldigest.com/photos/636d2ccb27e3bef3956e26a5/master/w_1600,c_limit/GettyImages-532883098.jpg'>Rocks instead of fire</a>, this one has very nice colors</li>
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<li><a href='https://media.architecturaldigest.com/photos/636c67157529778c18e8a559/master/w_1600,c_limit/AD070119_DISC_DUSEN_05.jpg'>Mosaic instead of fire</a></li>
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<li><a href='https://media.architecturaldigest.com/photos/602456ea3b9878872209d03b/master/w_1600,c_limit/YESAD090119_JOHNSON_03.jpg'>Plants instead of fire</a></li>
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<li><a href='https://media.architecturaldigest.com/photos/636c67130b818156d847ebf0/master/w_1600,c_limit/AD0921_STUDIO_JOB_11.jpg'>This one’s possibly functional</a>, but it was too weird to not include</li>
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What do you think of these fireplace jokes?
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Do you know of any other good fireplace jokes?
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Do you know of other design “puns” of a similar nature?
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Let me know your thoughts at my Ctrl-C email: <code>gome<span style='user-select: none;'> ​</span>@<span style='user-select: none;'> ​</span>ctrl-c.club</code>.
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