puzzled by the vogels

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I just posted at Readerville about this amazing story — The Vogel Collection: thoroughly modest Medicis. And it is thoroughly amazing. But the thing I can never understand about a story like this — as a person whose mood and, er, sense of well-being are deeply impacted by my surroundings — is how people with such a finely honed aesthetic sense could live in this room. No snark intended; I truly can't reconcile that.