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2.17.2013

Why we love beautiful things

 NY TIMES take on WHY?
 
By LANCE HOSEY
Published: February 15, 2013
GREAT design, the management expert Gary Hamel once said, is like Justice Potter Stewart’s famous definition of pornography — you know it when you see it. You want it, too: brain scan studies reveal that the sight of an attractive product can trigger the part of the motor cerebellum that governs hand movement. Instinctively, we reach out for attractive things; beauty literally moves us.
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 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/opinion/sunday/why-we-love-beautiful-things.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0      
NYTimes Via Carolyn Mullet
 
 
 


 




 

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Maryanne White
After studying for a Masters in Fine Arts, I realized how good gardens and landscape in general related so entirely to Fine Art, and that line,color and texture could be created just as well with plant material and hardscapes. After receiving my masters I went back to school and began studying Landscape Architecture, took a job with a small design firm and here I am today 30 years later still loving what I do.
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