Our aim was to create modern environments fit for the 21st century that fully met community needs and drove civic pride.
The social value placed on both sexes deserving fair treatment in modern environments ought not to depend on accepting or denying biological differences.
Instead of focusing on a specific period, he said, use furniture that has "a beefy, substantial silhouette, rather than something that's very thin and ultradelicate, which will look dwarfed in most modern environments".
Ikea is one of the great examples of what happens to a humane idea – the provision of decent, modern environments for living in – when it is calibrated purely towards profit and power.
William Georgis, an architect who designs glamorous modern environments for art collectors like Aby Rosen, said he occasionally puts hidden drawers in the bedside furniture he creates for clients.
This maladaptation may have developed over the course of the lifespan through interaction with modern environments.
