Since becoming an obsessed modern home designer I have learned many urgent tenents of sensible living, such as: molding is evil; carpet is the devil; cabinets are coffins. The news headlines confirm my righteous conclusions. The other day a woman in Boston died from a falling dropped-ceiling (yet another source of domestic oppression) panel unneccessarily employed (all dropped-ceilings are worse than whatever they hide!) in the "Big Dig." Not since that famous attorney's wife got beaten to death by a strip of crown molding (the culprit could plead insanity induced by bad taste!) last year have the evils of popular American home decor come into such clear focus (http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20051024_spilbor.html).
Less is more! Less, dammit, less!
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At least the tile comprised a modern material, concrete.
But what a hiddeous / unneccessary use. Consider the irony: they selected concrete because its heft would resist wind shear imposed by circulation fans... needed for circulation... which is in turn impeded by the dropped ceiling... which was installed to hide the underpinnings of the tunnel. But we righteous modernists embrace those underpinnings, reveling them as "industrial", as rendered trendy by any new restaurant's or loft apt's exposed air ducts and conduits.
Functionality over aesthetics = better aesthetics and better functionality.
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