@mattblaze@federate.social

I’m pretty sure we will

The brownstones of Brooklyn – over which these days Wall Street guys frantically try to outbid one another with $3-$4 million offers – because they’re regarded as gorgeous and iconic …

… were, when they were first built in the 19th century, utterly loathed by veddy propah citizens as being hideously ugly eyesores

While recognizing that horrible contemporary design does indeed exist, I have trouble fully trusting here-and-now aesthetic judgements