Today, conditions in turning trades, woodcarving and unlawfully low prices offered to lacemakers and embroiderers are eminent. Despite decoration adding price to a product, there are objects that go at low prices despite them taking the worker a lot of time decorating them. Absence of ornaments implies less number of working hours hence increased wages. In instances where one pays equally for a decorated and a non-decorated object, the decorator bears the difference in labor time. Since most of the work done today entails ornamentation, lack of ornaments will see people working for fewer hours. Ornament is a waste of capital. It is no longer attached to our culture hence does not reflect our culture. Ornaments developed currently have no relationship with humans (Loos 157). Ask yourself what has happened to decorations established by Otto Eckmann and Van de Velde. These ornamentalism stood for their products contrasting current ornamentalism who are found to reject their products within three years. Modern ornaments have no descendants neither do they have a future. They are treasured by uncultivated people who perceive the real prominence of our era as a closed book. They end up being rejected after a short period.
Rapid changes in decorations have led to depreciation of the fruit of labour. Capital items are being wasted which include time and decoration materials. The form of an object need to be bearable for the period the object will last. For instance, a suit is expected to change with respect to fashion more often than a precious fur. Likewise for a lady’s ball gown compared to a desk. Changing desks so quickly due to their shapes being unbearable results in waste of money spent in manufacturing the desk. For Austrian ornamentalists, they prefer a consumer who regularly changes his furniture to one who uses the furniture till it wears off. Rapid changes lead to employment. It promotes economic growth. This means that people should develop poor products to encourage changes. Today, lack of ornaments implies shattered labor and damaged materials. Were objects to retain they beauty for the period they will physically exist, people would be willing to pay high for them. Modern men, who perceive ornaments as a representation of past generations, will effectively distinguish those ornaments that have been carefully developed from those developed haphazardly (Loos 165). Appreciating the labor of ornament developers gives them the impetus to develop even more quality products. On the other hand curtailing capacities by issuing instructions on what to develop denies them labor as well as robbing their pleasures. It is imperative to tolerate ornaments only if they promote the pleasures of our fellowmen. Appreciating the work of ornamentalism is the only way that helps them attain the heights of their existence. Other arts have been pushed to unimaginable heights by lack of ornaments.
The article is development focused. Currently, there have been establishment of numerous counterfeit products. These products are offered at lower prices hampering the growth of persons who invent the original products. This is the main reason why the rate of innovation is going down in most countries as innovators never benefit from their work. The article emphasizes on the importance of sticking to original products and appreciating other people’s labor. This is the only way we can be able to foster equitable growth in the world. It is a very educational paper.
Works Cited
Loos, Adolf. Ornament and crime. New York: Ariadne Press, 1998. Print.