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Re: Off-topic observations - use of historic elements in modern
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Heidi Harendza <[log in to unmask]>
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BP - "The Cracked Monitor"
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Wed, 15 Sep 1999 10:30:35 EDT
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In a message dated 9/14/99 8:42:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> No thoughts, except that, to paraphrase Art Linkletter, "modernists do the
>  craziest things".  Taking some "ye olde" item and sticking it down on a
>  windblown plaza is actually a fairly common 1960's practice -

Chas McKim was using salvaged "ye olde" stuff up in Newport, and Stanford
White too... although his was mainly European "ye olde" (and some of it not
so very old, from what I understand.) In any case, I'm not sure it's a label
you can stick solely on Modernists?

-Heidi

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