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Article: The greening of interior design. (editorial)
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- Interior Design
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- August 1, 1991
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THE GREENING OF INTERIOR DESIGN
Opening sentences (except this little one) are crucial. One of my favorites opens E.M. Forster's "The Story of the Siren": "Few things have been more beautiful than my notebook on the Deist Controversy as it fell downward through the waters of the Mediterranean." Here Forster encapsulated the conflict between the forces of conscious human endeavor and unconscious nature, a conflict that is the subject, probably, of half the stories ever written. Quite overtly, it is the subject of Henry Adams's The Virgin and the Dynamo, of Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden, of Jacob Bronowski's The Abacus and the Rose. It is also the subject of ...