Airbnb presents us a home away from home in millions of locations around the world. But is the company also responsible for a bland modernist aesthetic that wipes out all signs of authenticity its hosts claim to offer?
In this file photo, the Airbnb app icon is displayed on an iPad screen in Washington, DC, on May 8, 2021. in 2016, he laments the homogenisation of Airbnb spaces across the globe, each property a facsimile of another despite no one overtly dictating any visual standards to follow.
The same thing that is happening with Foursquare is happening with Airbnb too, Chayka says. He offers the neologism “AirSpace” to define “the realm of coffee shops, bars, startup offices and co-live / work spaces that share the same hallmarks everywhere you go: a profusion of symbols of comfort and quality, at least to a certain connoisseurial mindset.”
Airbnb seems to be aware of and responding to the criticism, it seems, since it has been about six years since Chayka penned his piece and times have changed.
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