One of the byproducts of the COVID-19 pandemic has been an explosion in the broadcasting of domestic atmospheres. In this historically unprecedented moment, public relations are carried out almost exclusively from the home.
This episode is about the saturation of the cultural atmosphere with the domestic.
Double Macchiato cofounders Rafael de Cárdenas and Felix Burrichter are joined by creative director Caroline Gaimari to assess the situation — in which millions of us find our days brimming with more or less choreographed glimpses into the private spaces of friends, family, coworkers, television personalities, and total strangers — and discuss titanic kitchen islands, dedicated gift-wrapping rooms, and much, much more, as they venture down various sublime and grotesque wings of our strange new present.