Ornament as created today has no connection with us, has no human connections at all, no connection with the world as it is constituted. It cannot be developed. The artist always used to stand at the forefront of humanity, full of health and vigour. But the modern ornamentalist is a straggler, or a pathological case. He rejects even his own products within three years.
Modern ornament has no forbears and no descendants, no past and no future.
It is joyfully welcomed by uncultivated people, to whom the true greatness of our time is a closed book, and after a short period is rejected. Resources Sources on Khuner Villa Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. Adolf Loos, Theory and Works.