The Los Angeles House: Decoration and Design in America's 20th-Century City, 1995
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Kong Shangren, the guy who became popular at the early Qing court for writing a play that was (in part) about how sad it was that the Qing had taken over, was alive at the time glasses came to Qing via the Portuguese. He wrote this poem:
White glass from across the Western Seas
Is imported through Macao:
Fashioned into lenses big as coins,
They encompass the eyes in a double frame.
I put them on—it suddenly becomes clear;
I can see the very tips of things!
And read fine print by the dim-lit window
Just like in my youth.
ngl, I kind of teared up.
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NEW GHOST SKIN!!
Look at his silly little dad sunglasses. I love him.
“Gotta grab my sunglasses before crashing the car on my way to pickup Johnny from football”
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Modern home. Matico floor and wall tile for every installation. 1950.
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