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OMG!! I made it through an entire Mudede post. I've been reading for months, and this is the first one I've managed to get through. I'm not sure how that makes me feel...

Posted by Jaime-Leigh | September 13, 2007 11:46 AM
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@1: Like you're in touch with the radical and the mundane, the haptic and the cryptic? Drinking psilocybin tea Donald Duck, Donald Trump, and Donald Barthelmes? Speaking obtusely as an excuse to look at tits?

Posted by Ziggity | September 13, 2007 11:54 AM
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Having lived in Chicago for seven years and graduated with a design degree related to architecture, Mies Van der Roe is like a ghost that haunts me. His furniture is everywhere. It confronts me in museums, airports, restaurants...all of them ostensibly "modern". What does that say about the design field that some of the most "modern" spaces are populated with furniture designed in the teens and twenties. Is that commentary on his genius or on our lack of talent and vision?

Posted by Benjamin | September 13, 2007 12:05 PM
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Benjamin - you should check out some of these so called "modern" art galleries!

Posted by The Baron | September 13, 2007 12:40 PM
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Thanks for that Charles.

Posted by Jimmy | September 13, 2007 1:02 PM
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is it just me or does this guy sound just like Howard Roark

Posted by vooodooo84 | September 13, 2007 1:06 PM
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@4 The Baron, art galleries do not typically have lots of furniture.

I am talking about mostly public spaces and home furniture catalogs, like "Design Out of Reach" which tout practically ancient designs as modern.

Posted by Benjamin | September 13, 2007 1:20 PM
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The Bauhaus school doesn't dance, it marches. And that is why it sucks.

Posted by NaFun | September 13, 2007 1:56 PM
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Viva the Norton Building!!!!

Posted by Dod | September 13, 2007 2:08 PM
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mies van der rohe once tried to kill me in a dream.

Posted by josh | September 13, 2007 3:24 PM
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Mies van der Rohe said "less is more" and used very high-quality materials. "Less is more," Charles.

Posted by Amelia | September 13, 2007 4:02 PM
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mies used steel beams decoratively - not all of them were essential to the structure.

fucking hypocrite.

Posted by maxsolomon | September 13, 2007 4:04 PM
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I Mies designed brick-clad buildings too. And Philip Johnson once imitated Mies's style, when he designed the Glass House.

And what's not to like about Barcelona chairs? Probably the most comfortable public furniture ever.

Posted by iit alum | September 13, 2007 8:13 PM
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Eek: I forgot html bullshit

I [heart] Crown Hall

Posted by iit alum | September 13, 2007 8:15 PM
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Crown Hall is quite lovely. I saw it for the first time this spring.
#14 Have you seen Koolhaas's piece at IIT?? I like it...

Posted by Dod | September 13, 2007 10:55 PM

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