We Like Cars. We Like Buildings. The New York Times Likes Cars And Buildings.

Our bff Phil Patton, who’s all up in the car and design world, wrote a nice piece in today’s Times about how cars and design are, sometimes, related.

We generally avoid car ads but he does our work for us and makes a salient point, noticing that a couple cars — the Phaeton, a Saab — have been photographed with the backdrop of, respectively, Gehry’s Seattle Public Library and “cable-stayed European bridges.”

They had their reasons:

With Volkswagen, Steve Keyes, a company spokesman, said that Mr.

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