Blog assignment 4

Ornament or Nature

Adolf Loos argued in this essay ‘Ornament and Crime’ that “The evolution of culture is synonymous with the removal of ornament from objects of daily use.” He is stating that it is a crime to add ornament onto an object to change people perception on the object.

I agree with what Loos says in his essay. The main reason people put ornament on objects are to make increase the value of the object. Something that may be only $20 without ornaments can easily be $50 with ornaments added to it.

I agree with Loos because I think all the stuff which people use for ornaments is waste of materials that could be used more productively somewhere else.

Here is a mirror which has a lot of ornament on it which most of it is very unnecessary. The ornaments on this mirror would greatly increase the value of this mirror when all you really need is the mirror and a frame.

image from: http://mpmm-hannibal.blogspot.com/2010/06/part-ii-florence.html