This is exactly what currently occupies my thoughts all the time! ... With this particular example at hand, there is something in the style on the right which besets the spirit, and on the left - there is something in the grandeur and splendor which empowers the spirit!
The left one is full of useless elements, and that is what makes it subIimely beautiful. I am confident that there are aspects in our life where we must think beyond utility. Otherwise life will end in an aching dead-end emptiness.
Don't forget that no ordinary people ever had what's on the left, it always was and always will be exclusively for the elites so don't fool yourself thinking that somehow it was better in the past.
Craig Olfsen
My house would look more like the one on the right than the left one. 😏 It's just the stairs though.
In Vienna there are everywhere, even old residential housing has the same style, some is damaged but still there, the City council here where I live a d the next 2 villages, the Old part of the school here and in the next village
City council isn't really a place where simple people used to be in the old times, these were the places where higher-status people were dwelling and working. That school might have been a private school in the past. Don't forget that this places being public and accessible to all the public now doesn't mean it was that way when they were built.
If what you're saying is true then I can only envy the people of Austria where this all was and is apparently 'für Volk'. Where I was born(Ukraine) and where I live now(Russia) this wasn't the case.
City halls, museums, libraries etc. Actually, wherever such grand staircases were built, the building was always to some extent available to the public (e.g. a royal palace where a ball was held)
It's just the stairs though.
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