Sure, but this is presumably just a small sample of his work that he's most proud of and has self selected. It's interesting / surprising / puzzling to me that

Sure, but this is presumably just a small sample of his work that he's most proud of and has self selected. It's interesting / surprising / puzzling to me that someone who has spent a lifetime cultivating his craft and presumably knows far more about design than I do would choose to showcase something that appears to me to be a total eyesore, which makes me think I might be missing something.