Ornament & Crime x Adolf Loos

Ornament and Crime features a collection of essays by the renowned Viennese architect Adolf Loos, spanning architecture, jewellery, pottery, plumbing, and more. Loos, a passionate and polarizing figure, was pivotal to 20th-century design and his writings are as engaging as they are influential. He celebrates heroes and critiques villains with striking clarity, famously declaring, "If you want contemporary craft and utility objects, then poison the architects."