Comments on: On the City Pattern Project: More Subway Awesomeness in the Ruins of Civilization http://thegayrecluse.com/2008/06/17/on-the-city-pattern-project-more-subway-awesomeness-in-the-ruins-of-civilization/ The Gay Recluse: Observation, philosophy and other notes on the beauty and dissonance of life in the city Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:57:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: c. http://thegayrecluse.com/2008/06/17/on-the-city-pattern-project-more-subway-awesomeness-in-the-ruins-of-civilization/#comment-779 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:31:45 +0000 http://thegayrecluse.wordpress.com/?p=1452#comment-779 How I respond to your aching sense of vanishing beauty.

The Palm Beach Fair, one of my favorite events of the year, sells Renoirs, Pendergasts, and Miros. They also feature remnants of Deco rescued from forgotten locales like those pictured above. Polished and displayed against black velvet, the above grate would probably go for about $35,000. That, of course, is when people would stop and notice it.

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