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Someone who judges a chair by its curves, not its comfort.
means A person deeply devoted to beauty and the appreciation of art, often prizing visual or sensory pleasure over practical concerns.
from From Greek 'aisthetes,' one who perceives, rooted in 'aisthanesthai,' to perceive or feel. The same root gave us 'aesthetic.' The word gained its slightly mocking, overrefined edge in the late 1800s, when 'aesthete' became the label for devotees of the Aesthetic Movement — velvet jackets, lilies, and art for art's sake — a crowd Oscar Wilde both embodied and gently sent up.
- origin
- from Greek aisthetes, one who perceives
- risk
- often confuses beauty with virtue
- motto
- form first, function can wait outside
- famous case
- Oscar Wilde built a whole philosophy on it