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If you have the freedom to choose how you live, you have an obligation to take beauty seriously - beyond decor, as a way of seeing & being.
Modernity has been spectacularly good at optimization: speed, money, safety, convenience, scale. It has been less good at meaningful form- the kind that makes a life feel textured, alive, & worth inhabiting. Since the 1800s, what historians sometimes call the Great Male Renunciation, we've often traded ornament, ritual, & sensuous public life for efficiency & restraint.
This salon is a conversation about what beauty can mean now, in an age of metrics, screens, & mass-produced sameness, & what it might demand of us if we treat it as something more than personal preference. How can we reclaim the "Medici Model", where life is a ritual, conversation is an art, & community is formed through the shared recognition of what is higher.
Facilitator
Sabeen Sidiqui, Senior technology & innovation strategist. Programme Lead for Innovation & Industry at the World Economic Forum where she designs technology programming for Davos, the Global AI Summit, & the Annual Meeting of New Champions.
Reading (required) -est reading time 11 minutes
Ryan Khurana, The Obligation to Beauty (please come having read it):
https://www.palladiummag.com/2025/12/12/the-obligation-to-beauty/
A useful provocation to bring with you: one object, place, work, or moment you consider genuinely beautiful - & one you consider optimized but dead.
This event is hosted by Pearl Social, a curated community for intellectuals. https://www.pearlsocialapp.com/ Members get priority RSVP.
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