Faking it

Slightly put out to find that the timber columns outside the Roman Villa were actually fakes, with the business part being a galvanised steel core. Which left one wondering how many of the columns inside were fakes. Which was slightly irritating, rather in the way that all that tubular steel-work wrapped around the outside of some of the new buildings in London irritates, with trim pretending to be functional rather too loudly.

A device which goes back at least to the Greeks and the trim around the tops of their temples, but one which they pulled off rather better.

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