Archive for May, 2006

Perfect Home

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Well, I watched all three episodes of The Perfect Home last week. It was really interesting. Alain De Botton investigated why British people like to live in old-looking houses, what he called “pastiche” homes.
He argued that one of reasons is that we no longer know what is supposed to be beautiful or tasteful. In the [...]

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The Perfect Home

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Did you watch The Perfect Home last night on More4?
At last someone publicly questions the British housing phenomenon of living in reproduction buildings. We designers don’t quite understand why anyone would want to live in a new building that looks two hundred years old??? OK, wanting to live in a period house or wanting to [...]

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