I believe that Adolf Loos was right in arguing that we should remove ornamentation from our objects of daily use. I believe this because I think that it is a waste of material and pointless. By adding lots of decoration for the sake of adding decoration seems unjustified. Also by removing most of the ornamentation from the objects would make them look purposeful rather than just for show. If you look at some of the ornamentation from the Rocco period you can see that a lot of it looks pointless and over dramatised to a point in which real designers such as Pugin thought that it looked bad and didn't have any design principles or rules such as decoration having a purpose.
However because of the middle class people who were buying these objects don't know what good design is they brought these over decorated objects because they are cheap. These over objects were cheap because they were mass produced and therefore didn't have any real value. So the need for education was in order so that Adolf Loos's argument of the removal of ornament could become true.I think that this process helped in the history and today as we don't often see over decorated things in our daily lives or as much as in 1908.
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