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"beautiful-ugly"
So much of design is concerned with the beautiful object. But beauty does not always equate to interesting. As time passes, I am increasingly intrigued by the notion of purposely baking-in tension when designing objects, hence my fascination with the French concept of Jolie-Laide.
Why be beautiful when you could be interesting?
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Z4 Coupe… a whiff of Zagato?
Posted by: Valentin | 16 September 2005 at 09:36 AM
re: Jolie-Laide... i fondly call the Z3 hatchback "the shoe." it'd be interesting to contrast it with the convertible, which is merely Laide.
nice site.
Posted by: John | 16 September 2005 at 09:39 AM