ORNAMENTA MANIFESTO Glazed porcelain stoneware wall/floor tiles

MANIFESTO is a glazed porcelain stoneware wall/floor tiles with HD digital printing.‎ Ornament and Crime was an essay and a lecture by modernist architect Adolf Loos, that criticizes ornament in art, first given on 21 January 1908 in Vienna.‎ The essay equated the use of ornamentation in late nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture and design with the destruction of culture and society.‎ Loos felt strongly that ornament had no meaning or place within contemporary culture, even going so far as to argue that ornament actually hindered society’s progress.‎ Specifically, Loos viewed superfluous ornament as an epidemic, one that contributed to the obsolescence of objects.‎ He advocated for simplicity, because simple objects never go out of style and therefore would be treasured for all time.‎ Even today, Loos’s questioning of the role of ornamentation still resonates within the architecture and the decorative arts communities.‎ Academics, critics, students, artists, and curators regularly discuss and debate the topic, asking themselves such questions as: What purpose does ornament serve the design of an object? Is it simply a function of style? Does ornament contribute anything meaningful to objects today? ORNAMENTA’s provocative answer is in this collection, called “MANIFESTO”, in which the ornament was assumed at absolute protagonist.‎ Hand painted canvas on which the author expresses his creativity in two sizes and five colours, synthesis of experimentation on the materials and stylistic fronts.‎