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TOWARDS A NEW ARCHITECTURE

THE PARTHENON

Each part is decisive and marks the highest point in precision and execution: proportion is clearly written therein.

so on. We have only to get a clear idea of this and to draw the logical conclusion. To own together a large car and a Breton bed is quite usual, I am sorry to say.

Everybody asserts with conviction and enthusiasm: "The motor-car marks the style of our epoch!" but the Breton bed is sold and manufactured every day by the antique dealers.

Let us display, then, the Parthenon and the motor-car so that it may be clear that it is a question of two products of selection in different fields, one of which has reached its climax and the other is evolving. That ennobles the automobile. And what then?Well, then it remains to use the motor-car