Re:Why is simple decoration so rare in recent work?
by anovikov on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @02:32AM
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Here is my attempt to explain it...
Stylish design and appreciation thereof requires having some well-developed taste and also requires that most or almost all users belong to the same cultural tradition. Otherwise it will produce interiors or worse, cities that are a hodgepodge of kitsch creations. There has to be a lowest common denominator of "good ornament" that nearly everyone accepts as such.
With mass urbanisation resulting in majority of city population being low class, and with multiculturalism resulting in a large fraction of city population belonging to different cultures, the lowest common denominator has become, well, really low. Ah, there's also that desegregation thing.
Stylish design and appreciation thereof requires having some well-developed taste and also requires that most or almost all users belong to the same cultural tradition. Otherwise it will produce interiors or worse, cities that are a hodgepodge of kitsch creations. There has to be a lowest common denominator of "good ornament" that nearly everyone accepts as such.
With mass urbanisation resulting in majority of city population being low class, and with multiculturalism resulting in a large fraction of city population belonging to different cultures, the lowest common denominator has become, well, really low. Ah, there's also that desegregation thing.