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01 Ornament Is Not a Crime: Contemporary interiors with a postmodern twist by Rebecca Gross (Thames and Hudson Australia, 2023)

In , the design mantra “less is more” is rebuffed and replaced by a delightful assortment of bold colours, daring forms and scalloped edges. Postmodernism emerged in the 1960s in defiance of the conventional design rules and rationality of the preceding modernist movement – an era that favoured functionality over expression and experimentation. The origin of the style, Rebecca Gross explains, was

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