Entrance porch objects, Holiday Inn Express, Taunton
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Image: © Tom Jolliffe Taken: 28 Apr 2010
Square windows, square columns, tapered white pots and undistinguished plants. I can't say if this is a standard approach at all such hotels, but I guess it might be. The white theme picks up the colour theme of the porch roof and the mock tower on the building. Sitting amongst these themed objects, which make a deliberately unexceptionable background to which it is hard to object as one's aesthetic sensibility has been anaesthetised, there is a symbol of our changing society: the "ashtray". Those addicted to smoking tobacco have been driven out of public buildings altogether by law and this stainless steel column cringing against the grey brick background, trying to hide itself, signals the exile. Commonplace objects that are so commonplace that they evaporate instantly from the memory. They are not intended to be photographed.
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