"If we want to survive, if we want to reach the next level", postulated the German architect Günther L. Eckert in 1980, "we simply have to risk the impossible. It is too easy to invest only in common logic and to dismiss everything that does not have these specific characteristics, everything that encroaches into the incorruptible dimensions of creative self-consent".1 Günther L. Eckert's "impossible", his distancing from "common logic", his encroaching "into the incorruptible dimensions of
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Celebrating the Renaissance era humanist and author Thomas More's contribution to the history of furniture design. And a work sadly now as lost as his fabled commonwealth.... Abraham Ortelius' map of Utopia (ca 1595) (Source https://commons.wikimedia.org/) Utopia: Then as now In late December 1516 the Flemish printer Dirk Martens published the first edition of Utopia by Thomas More, a retelling by More of an account of a far off commonwealth, one so strictly, logically and naturally governed
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