Mysteries

Driving back to Hungary from Britain, we stopped for the night in a pretty old-fashioned inn. In our room was a very nice antique chest and also an antique cupboard:

There was a beautiful old tiled oven:

All the objects that I've shown here suggest that the inn-keeper appreciates well-made, well-designed things. What then drove him to add this weird glass television holder, come desk, come mad paintbrush displayer, to the room? A misguided impulse to seem modern, perhaps or just a mysterious lapse of taste:

I am baffled.