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Why is the world losing color?

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322 points trevin | 1 comments | 02 Apr 25 15:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ctrlp ◴[02 Apr 25 17:27 UTC] No.43559090[source]▶
Adolf Loos designed some incredibly sumptuous interiors. They aren't lacking in color. Methinks he's being used unjustly as a scapegoat to grind some axe. To me, this essay is an example of "slop."
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1. rhet0rica ◴[02 Apr 25 17:54 UTC] No.43559345[source]▶
To double down on that notion—the baroque rococo interiors that the author idolises at the end were the exclusive purview of the astonishingly wealthy, in no small part because of how expensive they were to implement. Accordingly they were equated with absolutism and corruption.

It's hard to decide how much of the author's position is born from ignorance versus how much of it is born from disingenuousness.