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Ligyron

(7,592 posts)
9. Carved stone.
Mon Apr 15, 2019, 09:06 PM
Apr 2019

Carved by actual humans who dedicated a lifetime to their craft, their trade.

Not a lot of that type detail being incorporated into today's architecture. Just steel and glass mostly. Sterile.

However, it wasn't that long ago - our grandfathers or great grandfathers perhaps, who came here from Europe where those skills were still taught and used. Incorporated into the skyscrapers and buildings of New York City and Chicago that were built of actual stone - masterpieces. You can see they wanted to do something special for their new home in a new world where anything was possible.

But, yeah - we'll probably not see their like again.

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