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by wtbob 4088 days ago
Agreed—and frankly, even in the pro-modernism article the best-looking pictures had the modernist pieces arranged in what I would call a post-modernist style.

Modernism was brutalism; it was van der Rohe and La Corbusier; it was decades of architecture which, as HRH the Prince of Wales has noted, did more damage to London than did the Luftwaffe.

I'd love to see a neo-Edwardian movement: organic shapes, colour, ornament, pattern, design, delight. Or bring back the single most beautiful artistic movement in history: Jugendstil/Art Nouveau.