Last weekend Alejandro and I dropped in on the annual "DecoEstylo" Expo at the World Trade Center, the largest exposition of home decor in Latin America. I went to it last year, so I knew what to expect, but Alejandro had never gone. Admission was free, and we had some time to kill, so we went in. The furniture for sale was not bad, but most of the home decor was for people who have more money than taste. I asked Alejandro if he knew the meaning of the word "tacky". He looked it up on the translator on his phone. The first meaning that appeared was for "sticky", and then came the meaning for "in bad taste". The word in Spanish is "cursi".
This display at the entrance is an example of "cursi".
It is actually for sale, although I have no idea where you would put it, much less WHY you would want it.
This Christmas tree makes the aluminum trees of yore look positively classy.
And what's with those ceramic sculptures of platform boots?
How about a blue metal chair for only 320 U.S. dollars?
In all fairness, not everything at the exposition was tacky. We both liked this black, glass dinnerware manufactured by Luminarc, a French company. I don't need a set of dinnerware, but I did buy a nice salad bowl.
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