While HN might be bullish on the article, I mostly agree with it, especially the quote given about the artists turning an industrial shop into something that is

While HN might be bullish on the article, I mostly agree with it, especially the quote given about the artists turning an industrial shop into something that is livable. It's an aesthetic of the poor in dire need of living and sleeping quarters, nothing more. Consider this: Everywhere you look, the rich don't have some yearning for minimalism. They have massive, lavish gates, gardens filled with sculptures and fountains, and if they are really going for it, interior cloisters with basketball courts and other amenities. High ceilings? Absolutely. Plenty of light? More than the building codes allow. That cottage they constructed on their massively acred forest property that's featured in some minimalist architecture digest magazine? That's for fun. Look at how much they paid (if they disclose) the architect to just design the thing. Good luck affording that. A bittersweet irony of life is minimalists eschewing anything to do with decorative veneer, while they jetset away to pose next to architecture from centuries past that screams opulence with the amount of detail and decorative elements that it has. Taste cannot be bought, even if it's shaped like a rectangle, made out of exotic wood, called "minimalist", and priced way out of your budget range to make you feel like you're somehow buying a one-of-a-kind item that will last you forever, because hey, you want fewer, but "higher quality" items, right?