This wood balustrade was designed in 2005 by Jeremiah Eck Architects for a new cottage in Maine. In the postmodern fashion popularized by Robert Venturi, the supports are flattened, cartoonish versions of traditional turned wooden balusters. The decorative, repetitive pattern has some of Aalto's folkish charm as well as Meier's abstract, white simplicity. This dichotomy reveals a lot about Eck's pragmatic approach to design: modern and yet not modern. Mies' aphorism is incomplete: It is not only God who is in the details, but also the Architect.