The Old Familiar Faces

…I have been laughing, I have been carousing,

Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies,

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces…

These three lines of verse illustrating Charles Lamb’s feelings of loss for the pals who brought intellectual stimulation into his life couldn’t be more meaningful to kick off this #DesignSalon post. I culled them from the poem The Old Familiar Faces, a phrase that is resonant even for the design aspects of the narrative. Lamb left the earth 180 years a...