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Worth Reading: Quality Villains Prefer Modernist Design
Writings about residential real estate and all things home, by Cynthia Cummins of Kindred SF Homes
Elaborate baroque-rococo-Gothic designs are no longer the mainstays for nasty, evil, meancing characters. Think Ex Machina or The Invisible Man instead of Crimson Peak or The Others.
This is a fun New Yorker read about how perfectly modernist architecture lends itself to creating the creepiness we crave in horror, thriller and suspense movies (just in time for Halloween): “When modernist homeowners aren’t outright creeps, they often tend toward a moral gray area, hovering between good and evil.”
Tell me, what sort of homeowner are YOU?
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