A useful shape gives beauty somewhere to live after admiration ends.

Admiration is short and use is long. A beautiful thing with no job becomes scenery within a fortnight, while a beautiful thing you pick up every day keeps being noticed because your hands renew the encounter. That is why craft traditions bind the two together rather than choosing between them; usefulness is what gives beauty a way of staying in your life.

When you buy or make something, ask where it will be handled rather than where it will be seen. Beauty in a cupboard fades from your attention faster than beauty at the sink.