In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city’s aniquated support systems, circulation
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLEReally living without clutter takes an iron will … This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife’s occupations, picking up.
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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible. … ornament is not only a source of sensuous pleasure
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Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness,
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I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste.
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What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.
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Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
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Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.
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. Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean.
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If you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. … their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.
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Really living without clutter takes an iron will … This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife’s occupations, picking up.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.
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Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
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