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| Majestic Cafe, Porto, Portugal |
When I was young I loved new things and hated old things. I was enamored with modern design, sleek, stylish and functional. I thought old designs were stupid and inefficient. After surviving three score and ten, my attitude has changed. I have seen too many new fangled things fail because of unforeseen events. Old things have problems, but mostly they keep chugging along. A corner may get knocked off, but it will keep on because that corner was there to get knocked off. It might not have been the original intention, but it worked out.
The facade on this cafe looks perfect, and it might be, but I suspect that if you were to actually visit the place and inspect this facade you would find any number of imperfections, but because of how elaborate it is, none of those are obvious. With a facade made of large plate glass windows, any imperfections would be immediately obvious because of perfect surface of the glass. You'd would need to employ someone full time just to wipe off the handprints because they would obviously mar the perfection.
1 comment:
It wasn't designed to be as quick and cheap as possible for a construction crew to build. It was built by artisans who took pride in building to show off their skills.
The person who commissioned that probably expected to pass the building and the business down to family.
xoxoxoBruce
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