❌An oversized table is one of the few non-lethal ways politicians can quickly assert their authority on the global stage.
What are world leaders really saying with their choice of furniture?
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What are world leaders really saying with their choice of furniture?
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telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🇷🇺🇫🇷On Monday, while eastern Europe continued to teeter on the edge of full-blown war, Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron met for crisis talks at the Kremlin.
You may have seen the photographs. They’re all in landscape, necessarily
You may have seen the photographs. They’re all in landscape, necessarily
There, at one end of a white conference table, sat the Russian president: hunched, obstinate and perhaps a little bored.
Meanwhile, approximately 43 miles away, across a barren Siberian tundra of glass, flowers and unspoken resentment, was his French counterpart
Meanwhile, approximately 43 miles away, across a barren Siberian tundra of glass, flowers and unspoken resentment, was his French counterpart
Putin almost never gives speeches in English. The Kremlin often complains that the Western world misunderstands it.
♟️Yet with one piece of furniture they told us all we needed to know about relations between Russia and Nato
♟️Yet with one piece of furniture they told us all we needed to know about relations between Russia and Nato
If a picture’s worth a thousand words, what about a dining table the size of the Ever Given?
Incalculable.
Incalculable.
Many jokes have been made about Putin’s overcompensatory fitment already.
➡️Badminton rackets, cats, megaphones and Alan Partridge have been photoshopped in
➡️One person called it the “mother-in-law” table
➡️Badminton rackets, cats, megaphones and Alan Partridge have been photoshopped in
➡️One person called it the “mother-in-law” table
✍️“Table Space” actually has its own page on tvtropes.
“Often just a visual gag,” the entry reads, “in more serious uses the distance between the two is used to illustrate the emotional distance between them, especially if this is a result of their opulent but hollow lifestyle”
“Often just a visual gag,” the entry reads, “in more serious uses the distance between the two is used to illustrate the emotional distance between them, especially if this is a result of their opulent but hollow lifestyle”
↔️Even if he didn’t necessarily read it on tvtropes, Putin knows about Table Space.
Bear in mind that this is a man who allegedly keeps his international guests waiting for as much time as he feels he wants to inflict on them, so it’s likely he’s aware of table-based froideur
Bear in mind that this is a man who allegedly keeps his international guests waiting for as much time as he feels he wants to inflict on them, so it’s likely he’s aware of table-based froideur
There is a time and a place for soft power, but hard, high-gloss, elegant maple, triple-arched, 14-seater power is even more effective.
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