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What Would William Morris Say?

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Design, Domesticus, Tidying up
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...ing at patio furniture. As yourself, “what would William Morris say?” Then picture the William Morris Meme: What if you’re arguing with your spouse over a certain Ikea impulse purchase: Or you’re pondering a trip to Costco: I know, the salmon is a bargain, but William Morris thinks you’ll end up with a basket full of pizza pockets and a Taco Bell hoodie. How about spending some time on Facebook? I think I’ve got the makings of a new anti-consumeri...

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The Kit Houses of the Pacific Ready-Cut Home Company

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Design
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...m was actually a dining room with a curtain, probably like this one in the picture above. In our neighborhood, house flippers have taken to ripping out all the walls and built-in cabinets in old houses in a misguided attempt to make them conform to the current vogue for everything mid-century modern. As a real estate agent once told me, “people like an old house on the outside and a new house on the inside.” Let it be known (and you heard it first...

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John Ruskin On Perfection and the Nature of the Gothic

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Design
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...the end of his vain effort being merely that he would take ten years to a picture and leave it unfinished. And therefore, if we are to have great men working at all, or less men doing their best, the work will be imperfect, however beautiful. Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect, in its own bad way. The second reason is, that imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body,...

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045 Whole Grain Baking

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Bread, Food, Podcasts
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...s Angeles Bread Bakers put on featuring the very talented Dave Miller. The picture is of the bread Dave baked in the workshop. Clockwise from upper left: einkorn, sonora wheat, charcoal wheat and spelt/rye. Miller was featured prominently in Michael Pollan’s book Cooked. During the show we mention: Dave Miller (see this detailed profile by Farine) Josey Baker Mark Stambler Nan Kohler of Grist & Toll Lodge Combo Cooker Though it’s made with yeast a...

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