Everything is in harmony: erosion at every scale, from the very large to the very small. Sign-making, too, has become like fast food: the disappearance of craftsmanship, graphic design, variety, taste. While the municipality busies itself with artificial embellishments and pointless additions, these real and existing works of art are being destroyed — or are being destroyed — with violence and tastelessness. In principle, the functional elements of a city, when they are good, are sufficient to make a city artistic, and there is no need for decoration and cosmetics (this is true of everything. Let us look at the cities we take pride in yet simultaneously destroy (!): is there any trace of cosmetics?).
Enghelab [S] — King’s men’s shoe shop. The shop front features the stylized name of the shop in Persian. Qarani [E] – Moqaddam men’s clothes. Qaem Maqam Farahani [W] – Jewellers.Enghelab [S] # 408 — Chic Monde. Modaffah [E] # 253 — Ladybird. Enghelab [N] + Bahar [W] — Toulou. The 1936 cover of the manuscript of the Kafkaesque novel Boof-e Koor – The Blind Owl – by the iconically nonconformist and enigmatic Modernist Iranian writer, Sadegh Hedayat, The Modernistic / Deco (?) calligraphy, based on the circle and the straight line, had its precedence. And why has one dot become so big? The answer to such questions could probably be more cryptic than explaining The Pyramids!Karim Khan [S] + Iranshahr [W] — Pic. Vali Asr [N] + Taleghani [S] — Gol-e Karaki tailor and clothing.
