Summary
The meticulously designed interiors, with their matching cabinets and chairs, sugar bowls, light fittings, gorgeous cudery and crafted loo-paper holders, all spoke of informed good taste. In his essay "The Metropolis and Mental Life", Georg Simmel, one of Germany's first generation of sociologists, argued that, as a society becomes ever more impersonal, people feel the need to assert dieir idiosyncratic individuality in the face of the dehumanising effects of the modern world.
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The Gilded Cage
For those of a certain age, Klimt's The Kiss was the must-have student poster. All that languorous passion, all those Technicolour Dreamcoats. It went along with loons and longhair, and looked down silently on countless messy college copulations. It became so ubiquitous that it stopped being a painting and became simply an inexpensive way to cheer up grotty digs.
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