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(n.)
Decor arranged to optimize for the camera’s lens and social media output rather than for the body’s comfort.
Everyone was impressed by the summer house's décoreography until they sat in its chairs.
Does it ring true?
From the future, or already here?
Décor + choreography, from the Greek khoreia, dance, by way of graphein, to write: choreography started as a dance written down to be performed, now the room is staged similarly. A sofa angled for the background blur, a reading nook with no light to read by: designed more for the aesthetic than for the people who will live with them.
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