You’ve surely encountered Dwell magazine in your travels. It’s the oversized architecture and design magazine exploding with beautiful homes and objects for the fairly well heeled. We couldn’t help but have a giggle when Metropolis (an architecture and design magazine for the really well heeled) took a stab at Dwell in their blogs. Here’s their Open Letter to Dwell Magazine:
Dear Dwell:
Love the magazine. As a favor, I have rewritten the Table of Contents of your July/August issue:
Cover House with Horizontal Wood Slats
Page 43 House with Vertical Wood Slats
Page 52 House with Horizontal Wood Slats
Page 58 Ice Cream Makers
Page 66 Pavilion with Horizontal Wood Slats
Page 70 Philadelphia
Page 80 House with Horizontal Wood Slats
Page 88 House with Horizontal Wood Slats
Page 96 House with Vertical Wood Slats
I hope you find this useful.
Fondly,
Jeff Speck, AICP
Washington, DC
Putting aside the vertical and horizontal slats appearing on the Metropolis homepage, it’s a fair observation and a good ribbing. And not surprisingly, commenters used the opportunity to do a little ribbing of their own:
Gary @ 6:30 am: “At least the slats *are* a reason to read Dwell. No-one reads Metropolis
Herbert @ 10:37 am: “Well, at least Dwell sends me my magazine. And yes I subscribe to both.”
I believe the man they called Jesus had words for dust-ups like this one: “First take the vertical wood slat out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” Oh snap!
Source: Metropolis
