“I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuities. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver.

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“You can design a car so that every time you get in it,
 it’s a relief–you have a little vacation for a while.”
                     

Automobile Designer Harley Earl

It ought to be the same with a condo.

“Power is everywhere; not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere.”

Michel Foucaul

“How one walks  through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.” 

Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just, Princeton University Press, 1999, p.15

“Science is a hamper which is being filled with things and more things that no one can manage until Art puts handles on the hamper and takes from it exactly what is necessary to perform the deed.”

Antonio Gaudi

“The perfection of architecture is frozen music.”

Lord Byron

“If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house [or condo!], I should say the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”

Gaston Bachelard, from The Poetics of…