Timeless
I got the new Dwell magazine in the mail today. It is all about the future, and the future of design. Within is suggested that “modern” design could be counted as “timeless” design. It struck me that modern design, by definition, is not and cannot be timeless. Modernity is very much part of a particular time in history, and its influence is necessarily always looking forward, anticipating change, pushing boundaries; its very purpose is lost without time. Even its dismissal of history is wrapped up in time. And so, though it has now transcended not a handful of generations, it cannot be timeless. I think there is a quality about it that is trying to be described that is true — that it will keep its course through the future of time — but that word is not timeless.
