Once the future.
Sometime in 1983, I remember sitting at my orange-and-blue flowered kiddie table — which served as teacher’s desk, restaurant setting, doctor’s examination table, manicure station, and whatever else I used it for — and doodling idly on a piece of paper:
1984. 1985. 1986. 1987. 1988. 1989. 1990. 1991. 1995. 1999. 2000.
Whoa. 2000. “I’ll be 25,” I thought in amazement. “What will my life be like then?” I carefully traced and re-traced the numbers with my yellow no. 2 pencil, trying to picture the days when writing those years would be normal, of the moment.
Do you remember? Remember when we thought the future looked like this?
I’ve loved Aarnio ball chairs, but I didn’t know that one of his countrymen took the aesthetic all the way to an entire house!
Complete photo and more here.