That Tate Modern case

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That Tate Modern case

Post by discovolante » Tue Jan 19, 2021 10:58 pm

The one where the neighbours sued because everyone was peeking into their flats from the viewing gallery, that one, well it's going to the Supreme Court apparently.
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Re: That Tate Modern case

Post by discovolante » Tue Jan 19, 2021 11:02 pm

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Re: That Tate Modern case

Post by Grumble » Wed Jan 20, 2021 6:23 am

Cant we just buy them some curtains?
where once I used to scintillate
now I sin till ten past three

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Re: That Tate Modern case

Post by Martin Y » Wed Jan 20, 2021 12:01 pm

Grumble wrote:
Wed Jan 20, 2021 6:23 am
Cant we just buy them some curtains?
That would ruin the aesthetic.

When you buy an apartment with glass walls, the whole concept is for it to look like a shop window of expensive and tastefully quirky furniture, clearly not appear actually lived in and thus for it to fill you with a smug sense that almost-similarly monied aesthetes would be jealous of your magazine-perfect room arranged just so.

Importantly though, it exists for the sensation that it could be peered into but is not for actually being peered into.

Most emphatically it is not for looking at by people who could not conceive of aspiring to own it, nor by those who would fail to appreciate it and thus fail to feel the appropriate jealousy.

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