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		<title>freeman, swine or slave?  another reason why William Morris matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his essay, “The Lesser Arts of Life” (available in its full form here), William Morris distinguished between the &#8220;Greater Arts&#8221; (those that appeal to a person’s spirit and emotion by the direct path of his senses) and the “Lesser Arts” (those that serve physical needs).  Articulating a fundamental idea of the Arts and Crafts movement, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattersoftaste.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9468740&amp;post=3900&amp;subd=mattersoftaste&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>hello, Clio: a calendar of architecture</title>
		<link>http://mattersoftaste.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/hello-clio-a-calendar-of-architecture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In general, spin-off programming is a tricky business: maintaining the strengths of the parent while allowing the offspring to find her own voice is more often than not a shot in the dark, at best.  But in the spirit of those spin-offs that have worked&#8211;in the spirit of, say, Frasier and Colbert (both of which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattersoftaste.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9468740&amp;post=3884&amp;subd=mattersoftaste&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>every episode of Downton Abbey we&#8217;ve ever seen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FADE IN: EXT. DOWNTON ABBEY ESTATE, DAY DISSOLVE TO: INT.  DOWNTON ABBEY: amazing room, luscious furnishings, two beautiful people in gorgeous clothes. ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM: Oh dear, my dear, our heir presumptive has died. Because of the entail on the estate we will lose all of our money. CORA: Oh dear, my dear, however [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattersoftaste.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9468740&amp;post=3872&amp;subd=mattersoftaste&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MoT: 2011 in review</title>
		<link>http://mattersoftaste.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/mot-2011-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. We&#8217;re read on six continents?! Where&#8217;s the love, Antarctica? Click here to see the complete report. Filed under: taste Tagged: WordPress stats 2011<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattersoftaste.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9468740&amp;post=3830&amp;subd=mattersoftaste&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>tastometer 2011</title>
		<link>http://mattersoftaste.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/tastometer-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although taste can neither be judged on a perfect continuum (since so often events and objects evince both good and bad taste) nor be comfortable within delimiting factors of a ten-part end-of-year list, the turning of the calendar does seem an appropriate time to take pause, consider the year that has passed, and acknowledge special [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattersoftaste.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9468740&amp;post=3707&amp;subd=mattersoftaste&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>offices for architects</title>
		<link>http://mattersoftaste.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/offices-for-architects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most important Design project that an Architect will ever undertake is the design of his Office.  Even more important than the House he will design for his Mother (the publication of which gives him the credibility to serve on Design Juries at Ivy League schools and also something &#8220;real&#8221; to include in his portfolio), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattersoftaste.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9468740&amp;post=3457&amp;subd=mattersoftaste&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ode to St. Barbara: masonry walls</title>
		<link>http://mattersoftaste.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/ode-to-st-barbara-masonry-walls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although she was edged out of first place (by St.-Denis) for the honors of Best Martyr in a highly influential and absolutely definitive study (read the full account of My Favorite Martyr here), St. Barbara (d. 306; see full image detailed above here) is associated with more tangible elements that ought to draw one&#8217;s attentive devotion to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattersoftaste.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9468740&amp;post=3612&amp;subd=mattersoftaste&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barbie® dolls of the Dolls of the World® Landmark Collection® collection</title>
		<link>http://mattersoftaste.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/barbie-dolls-of-the-dolls-of-the-world-landmark-collection-collection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clio</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[the Tower is named for St. Stephen not 'Big Ben']]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Midway through the convulsions brought on by Museum Collection Barbie® (see it here if you dare) we came upon this fresher hell: significant cultural landmarks have been channelled through the special aesthetic vision that can only be described as Barbiesque®.  As reported by MoT&#8216;s only news source for all things Barbie®, Barbie Collector, Barbie® commemorates the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattersoftaste.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9468740&amp;post=3495&amp;subd=mattersoftaste&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Barbieriffic® Barbies® of the Museum Collection Barbie® Collection</title>
		<link>http://mattersoftaste.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/the-barbieriffic%c2%ae-barbies%c2%ae-of-the-museum-collection-barbie%c2%ae-collection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clio</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gustav Klimt Adele Bloch-Bauer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[quoting Dorthothy Parker and Queen Victoria in a single post is worth a BOOYA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MoT staff entered their adult years at a point of truce with Barbie®.  We&#8217;ve healed the childhood scarring of the Unachievable Barbie Figure®, and overcome the aesthetic damage wrought to our architectural sensibilities by Barbie&#8217;s Dream House®.  We went our way, Barbie® went hers.  Or so we thought.  Had Barbie® remained in her rightful place [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattersoftaste.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9468740&amp;post=3147&amp;subd=mattersoftaste&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the &#8220;lesser arts&#8221; at the Met</title>
		<link>http://mattersoftaste.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/the-lesser-arts-at-the-met/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We saw this view (to the left) at a distance and it pulled us in like a tractor beam.  The whole time we were focused on the large piece next to the funky little chair and stammering WebbWebbWebbit&#8217;sgottobeaWebb.  Sure enough, it is, and even though our camera skills were not quite up to par (shaky hands, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattersoftaste.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9468740&amp;post=3063&amp;subd=mattersoftaste&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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