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Old Dec 8, 2016 | 11:02 am
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Originally Posted by cestmoi123
Slightly off-topic: There's a wonderful 99% Invisible piece on brutalism (link below), I highly recommend it.

http://99percentinvisible.org/episod...-love-a-brute/

Also, fun fact: Ian Fleming LOATHED brutalism with a passion. He named Goldfinger (the character) after Erno Goldfinger, the brutalist architect. It wasn't intended as flattery.
Even more off topic: Isn't it odd how you may have never heard of something, then you hear a cluster of mentions? Just today I was browsing online furniture offerings and saw something described as a brutalist-style buffet.
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