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THING of the month September 2009: With gemstones decorated mobile phone

With gemstones decorated mobile phone; Design: Moeko Ishida, Deco Loco, 2009
Manic Ornamentation, Wasteful Decoration

Excessive inundation with ornament and extreme decoration, which can deteriorate into the "infectious and therefore very dangerous illness of ornamentational rage".

From: Gustav E. Pazaurek, Guter und schlechter Geschmack im Kunstgewerbe, Stuttgart, Berlin 1912



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