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Interesting fellow : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Loos - and snappy dresser. (Love the collar on phot no 2)








Im struggling a bit with his "Why a man should be well dressed" - some very modern ideas coming out of a very claustrophobic social context in pre WW1 Austria-Hungary.

Melcombe wrote:Im struggling a bit with his "Why a man should be well dressed" - some very modern ideas coming out of a very claustrophobic social context in pre WW1 Austria-Hungary.

Also HERE. I read the book last year - very nice edition and beautiful object. Honestly, I found its content a bit boring. I guess I had too high expectations from having studied the impact of the author's ideas on contemporary architecture.

Nice duds... as to "ornament is crime", I think that Vienna in that period marked the beginning of the end of Western Civ.

I say: "ornament is fine"!

Luca wrote:I think that Vienna in that period marked the beginning of the end of Western Civ.

I was saying pretty much the same thing to my wife only yesterday.