I'm a little bit gutted at the end of that but I knew that it would be Victoria who had a mare from beginning to end and John who only got through because she had a mare because yet again he showed that he has no idea when it comes to time management and frankly by this stage that should see him out because it's not good enough. I'd have sent him home over Victoria because I like her more but in terms of what she did this week it was shockingly bad. Thing is, she knew it. She wasn't pretending it wasn't her fault. She got the wrong paper for all the right reasons (time management), I'm sure if she thought she was buying better quality than she was. She should have got the glass precut at a glass shop because I've seen contestants have things "ready" before. It would have cost her a bit more but it cost her the competition. Her and Craig sort of bookended each other. She forgot herself in the project and he thought of nothing but himself.
I loved his room for what it was, which had nothing to do with either rugby, Rothko or the 1950s although it was 50s adjacent. It was Craig looking not as clever as the thought to a pedantic bitch called fags. He loves Mad Men but doesn't know that the first episode starts in 1960. I'd let him off because style doesn't change on the first gong of midnight the next decade but that means that none of Mad Men is set in the 50s and you get to the real 60s feel of the interiors quite soon. The 50s interiors are more sort of either homely, the Draper's home, corporate and doesn't change much, the general offices, the clubs are a bit more ornate and swirly than his idea of the 50s which is in fact more 60s, but he didn't know that.
Rothko is not known for f-ing panelling. He is about colour blocking but not in a that is what it is and all that it is. He is love or hate - I love - and he's deeply important in art, not just "I'll throw a bit of that at it." Craig has got his idea from watching at least a couple of episodes of Mad Men which cover a particular commission, the Seagram murals which he ended up giving to the Tate in London and wow (LOVE, you may hate and I agree with each of those opinions. I hated them when I first saw them, now I go and sit in front of them and sigh with pleasure. Life's strange.) Anyway, it's a triumph when they're put in the restaurant, The Four Seasons and it's a tour de force in NYC and anyone who knows about art or wants to look like they do ... and Betram Cooper, head of the agency gets his very own Rothko and all the boys want to sneak into his office and see it. It's a bit of the comedy part of the show and fun. So, Craig has gone, mad men, that episode, Rothko in The Four Seasons, Rothko in my Rugby bar. I don't know if the circle thing was supposed to be Rothko, but it wasn't and neither was anything else. I love Nisha, but someone had told her and Michelle what to say about Rothko and that was it. Craig showed too much of his show off side last night. In terms of not doing one thing - one rugby ball does not count - that adhered to the brief he could well have been the first person to be sacked off for a lovely room that was well put together, great bar, but off brief. That would have been a travasty, and much as he annoys me I wouldn't have wanted that to happen to him. But it was him and Victoria doing the opposite thing and she would always lose out. She has proven something about herself though and every week I've watched her learn a little bit. I'll be really surprised if she doesn't get a career out of this and maybe the only one of them who does apart from maybe Bryony who works hard and is very midlevel which will appeal to places like John Lewis. Victoria will get corporate work and then more personal. She needs to trust her own vision. I loved her bedroom in week two.
Craig will find it hard to get work while he makes it all about him although I'm sure Alan will happily have him around his to do up his bits and pieces.