![]() It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic cavern. ![]() The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. That’s what enabled Western man to spend decades building a Gothic cathedral or a Renaissance piazza. We’ve always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. There, too, incongruous things came together: a steelworks construction site superimposed on a kerosene lamp an old-fashioned lamp with a painted-glass shade shattered into tiny splinters and rising up over a desolate landscape of marshland.įranz said, ‘Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. ![]() The view changed with each step, as if they were following a winding mountain path surrounded by breathtaking scenery a young man in a black suit directing an invisible orchestra while crossing the street a fountain spurting water and a group of construction workers sitting on the rim eating lunch strange iron ladders running up and down buildings with ugly red façades, so ugly that they were beautiful and next door, a huge glass skyscraper backed by another, itself topped by a small Arabian pleasure-dome with turrets, galleries, and gilded columns. ![]() Franz and Sabina would walk the streets of New York for hours at a time. ![]()
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