> It's like in the 60s everyone decided that more modern means more simple and we've only stripped back from then on. That actually started way sooner than in

> It's like in the 60s everyone decided that more modern means more simple and we've only stripped back from then on. That actually started way sooner than in the 60s. For a good starting point see the 1910 essay Ornament and Crime from Adolf Loos, but even that was a bit after the cultural change already started, though before it was widely applied. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornament_and_Crime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornament_and_Crime