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Reply To: | His reply: No. Have you read The Lazy Teenager by Virtual Reality?" < [log in to unmask]> |
Date: | Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:46:03 -0200 |
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> Thomas Hastings, in recommending against the cleaning the Vermont
> marble of his grand New York Public Library:
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> "The color mellowed with time is more interesting than made new again,
> especially because the stone in its original condition shows great
> blotches of black or gray. I feel that a building of this character
> should be allowed to age naturally, especially as it will probably
> live so long that successive ages would injure the material, carving,
> &c., by repeated cleaning."
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> (The New York Times September 18, 1926)
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Wow, incredibly prescient re: the damage of repeated intervention and
the desire to maintain the natural weathering as a portion of the
architect's aesthetic. Nice.
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