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Home Blog Quote unquote: Steve MacLaughlin on the age of aesthetics
Quote unquote: Steve MacLaughlin on the age of aesthetics
Written by William Danzek   
Friday, 11 May 2007
"Not long ago if someone told you that the hardware store would be a trendy place to hang out, you might have looked at them with a skeptical eye. If someone had told you that the top programs on television wouldn’t be sitcoms or dramas, but instead those that feature drab dwellings being refurbished and stylistically challenged people getting makeovers, you probably would have laughed." -
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