The School for Children Who Don’t Need it

A promotional banner for Gilded Lily Nursery School advertising enrollment, featuring an image of a mother and child interacting with educational blocks, with greenery and an American flag visible in the background.
East 96th Street, New York

To gild the lily:

  1. To embellish or improve something unnecessarily. 
  2. To add superfluous attributes to something. 
  3. Make unnecessary additions to what is already complete. 
  4. Adorn unnecessarily (something that is already beautiful). 

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Adam Isler

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