Design

Street Lights Don’t Have To Be Ugly

> Which is why their intricate decoration comes across as fake! They're a simulacrum of 1800's to 1900's era lighting (which itself was cast and mass produced, but at the time that was special). The context is different now, which comes across as cheap and inauthentic.

Adding intricate details to a cast (which could easily be a simple cylinder) is it exact opposite of making it "cheap". The lights you are praising are most definitely cheaper.

> Have you looked at telephone poles before?

You can do better than this. The light in my photo is literally on a telephone pole.

You're making my point when the only thing you can identify that is pieced together with materials that are neither honest, nor elegant is the very same cheap public infrastructure I'm arguing against.

PS. Any high school woodworking student could show you how to make stronger, more secure, more honest, and more authentic joints with wood alone.