Beauty should be quiet enough so you can take it or leave it. When a thing is self-consciously made to be beautiful(as though beauty was the total aim) it never seems to work, and it becomes futile and knickknacky. There has to be some purpose and usefulness about the creating.
– Elizabeth Gordon, editor, House Beautiful, 1960s.
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