What do I
see
in this
past
on whose shoulders this
extraordinary
present
and
future
stand?
I
see
Werner
being
extraordinary.
I
see
extraordinary,
breakthrough
ideas.
I
see
people
being
extraordinary.
And I
see
something that was always there (like air for
birds,
like
water
for fish) ie which was so always there (like
Self
for
people)
that its impact and enormous
contribution
are
easily
overlooked: I
see
its
background
interior design. That's right, and I also
see
the talented,
Self-taught
brilliant
man who implemented all of it. In his
breakthrough
design of the
Franklin House's
interior,
Werner's work
really took wing. I
see
his
background
physical setting ie the pieces he meticulously
chose
and carefully assembled which matched
Werner's
intention,
perfectly
conducive to
Conversations For
Transformation
manifesting
powerfully
in it.
When
Werner
did what he
extraordinarily
did, when the
ideas
did what they
extraordinarily
did, when
people
did what they
extraordinarily
did, it was all done in this space inside of and in front of that
most
brilliantly
designed interior. And the
brilliant
design of that interior was so appropriate to the
work
at hand, so right, so accepted, so fitting that
it was very
easy,
like
high class Zen,
to overlook it and to take its
brilliance
for granted. I myself made sure never to do that.
Who Werner is,
spoke
newly,
loudly, and
clearly
to me in the
Franklin House.
Transformation
had always
spoken
to me.
Transformation
with
Werner
in this environment, more than just
spoke
to me: it touched me, it
moved
me, it compelled me.
Those fabrics, those colors, the
artwork,
the coarse yet practical carpeting, the pragmatism of it all,
simply
stunned me. I could have
Conversations For
Transformation
anywhere, in any environment, at a bus stop, on a
beach,
in an airplane, in the checkout line at the
Safeway store where I shop. I could also have
Conversations For
Transformation
in this environment in which something more je ne sais
quoi would
happen,
making these
Conversations For
Transformation
beyond
extraordinary.
Then I'd get the impact of his legendary interior design prowess.
Being around it was being around
true
greatness.
Consider
this: if you were an interior designer with a mandate to design the
interior of facilities in which
Conversations For
Transformation
occur, what would you do? Now
consider
what the ideal, the
perfect
interior design style would be for the interior of facilities in
which
Conversations For
Transformation
occur. His were both. The very spaces designed by him
demanded
Conversations For
Transformation.
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