Short for ‘Geometric-Glamorous’, this is the mid 1970s - mid 1980s “luxurious materials + geometric forms” design aesthetic, sometimes referred to as “cocaine decor”.
…Is it? Is that a common enough alternative name? You see that in the architecture coffee table books?
When I see interior design with that many untextured surfaces I unironically do think of cocaine.
Because otherwise you have mirrors sitting on countertops everywhere. I’d see that with thirtysomething LA.
If you were not around at the time it is easy to miss how much of our sense of “canonical” 80s music and look dates to the 2002 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, prior to which the era was seen as an aesthetic embarrassment and elided
I remember seeing all these old Smith Barney “we make money the old fashioned way: we earn it” ads as my dad watched Moneyline (with Lou Dobbs!) on CNN in the 1980s but found them confusing cause I hadn’t distinguished them from Crayola makers Binney & Smith.
Now appreciating that the ‘80s Florida thing wasn’t from Miami Vice, that and “yacht rock” were responding to a real period vogue, like the late '70s Colorado thing or maybe '90s Seattle. Like, this:
was from 1982 (Miami Vice debuted '84), released as a single with the duh-its-about-cocaine White Line Fever on the B-side
