There's a certain type of old office with the yellow windows, cielings, walls and blinds. Strange stains everywhere and visible ducting all over the place. It feels homely to me. Modern offices feel cold and without soul, lighting is too bright and lacks natural sunlight. The offices of old you get the yellowed softened sunlight showing all the dust particles in the air.
The one i went to was basically empty. Areas cordoned off with a handful of staff left. A random bucket in the middle of the room to catch a leak. Dark corridors and flickery tube lights. I sat in a room with the window open listening to the breeze rustle the tobacco stained blinds.
Anyone else got this absurd feeling or just me?
do you think that some of these aesthetics and elements evoke something more wholesome or soulful because we associate those scenes and those eras with real people, and stories we are fond of?
so that essentially, in 30 years we will be nostalgic for the look of an aged 2020s office because we will then have associations of people that worked in those types of spaces and associations with personal stories or media, and it will stop feeling soulless?
to answer your question i don't think i have the same reaction as you but it makes enough sense that someone might react that way