“The historical division between the beautiful and the sublime indicates that an aesthetic experience is not necessarily linked to beauty, but can also be induced by the unpleasant, unbalanced, distorted, or even hideous.” BeautifulSustainabilitySublimeAestheticsBeauty QuotesSustainable Design Book:Aesthetic Sustainability - Product Design and Sustainable Usage Source: Aesthetic Sustainability - Product Design and Sustainable Usage
“Decay is renewal--a perhaps contradictory sentence that nevertheless characterizes the aesthetically sustainable product, which ages gracefully and which possesses the germ of aesthetic decay as process. Decay equals renewal in the sense that aesthetic decay ensures the continued interest and fascination of the recipient.” SustainabilityDecayRenewalSustainable Design Book:Aesthetic Sustainability - Product Design and Sustainable Usage Source: Aesthetic Sustainability - Product Design and Sustainable Usage