I came across this frighteningly mundane pictures of North Korea on Philippe Chancel’s website.

Styles and designs look nothing so much like an evil alternate history version of the 1950′s America: pep rallies, ubiquitous uniforms and slipcovers on chairs. I can’t tell if they actually hired my grandmother as an interior decorator or if this is just one of the unintended consequences of a totalitarian regime suppressing all independent thought and imagination.