Tuscany in California

The story

One of my favorite children’s books is “The adventures of Dunno”.  Yes, you can find it on the Internet, just Google the title. One of the stories there was about two artists. They would both do portraits of girls. First will do very realistic portraits and wouldn’t listen to girls demands. The other one would listen to what girls are asking for. She noticed that they pretty much wanted the same “the eyes bigger and the mouth smaller”. She got smart and created rubber stamps with the portraits in demand. Not only her job became easier but she became very popular and wealthy too. Well I may have made up the part about the wealth.

 

The repetition

Well this story repeats quite often look at Hollywood for example where they rubber stamp popular movies. The reason I am writing though is the housing in California in late 90’s and until now in 2007. They have built more Tuscany houses in California for the last 10 years than in Tuscany for the last 100 years. Come here folks the rubber stamps are out and we are churning them houses hot from the press. Unlike the old Tuscany homes everything is fake in our California homes – the stone, the wood, the fireplaces, but who cares. The business is good.