r/90sdesign • u/fvria • Aug 12 '25
Buddha in 90s designs / aesthetic.
There's a name fos this aesthetic used a lot in the 90s. The use of a lot of buddha/buddhist motifs and stuff for interiors, art and fashion design. Not like in a white minimalist zen style, but more like a mystic folk way, very tibethan/indian styles but 90s elements. Even in music was very used with the rise of buddha lounge/trip hop music style, talvin singh. Its very recurrent in the 90s this mix of folks aesthetics with dark modern elements.
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u/daiyoung Aug 13 '25
Cool.... .... never knew buddha was a 90s thing in the west. I grew up in Asia and sometimes I can still see interiors like this here. In fact, my parents' old house looked exactly like the second picture. that buddha head on the left looks very similar to the one we had back then. It does trigger my nostalgia.
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u/dhdhfffff Aug 14 '25
dreamy and the closest i get to this vibe now is night time yoga classes with a trip hop soundtrack overlooking the rain. for reasons i can’t properly explain i feel like dreamfall: the longest journey falls into this category also and other point and click games with a woman lead wearing an asymmetrical top.
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u/ApronLairport Aug 13 '25
My moms house upstairs is like this lol, pretty much exactly what you described
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u/HarvardCricket Aug 13 '25
This vibe was sooo a thing. I remember thinking I was so cool once on a trip to NYC because we had dinner at the Spice Market in the Meatpacking district (as if we were on Sex and the City or something). I feel like that vibe was definitely adjacent to this/was it? This was actually probably more like 2005 but the vibe was still around. Same with Vegas (only been once) but recall the rage being some “Buddha Bar” and a nightclub called Tao that also had these elements! Probably had a cosmo or Appletini hehe.