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81 — Otto Wagner — 3/5 — On the Stadtbahn

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The Importance of Surface Decoration in Wagner's Career

decoration is like very opulent but very flattened. It's the sort of secession approach to decoration and bling generally isn't it god are those all double-headed you i should hope so i mean some things need to be reiterated don't they. What picks this one out as being of jing is its material richnessYeah well i mean it's in sort of non-literal depth isn't itWell there's a physical depth actually it means kind of how about two like a depth of like six mill so it does have like it does have a slight changeability with light  It has a kind of perceptual material which is much deeper than it's like than its literal depth yes it

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