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>>53807672
For my whole life I've wondered why people with an untrained eye think the best pieces of furniture in the world look ugly.
In the 1800s, this stuff looked awesome because of the sheer quality of the craftsmanship and materials. It was really hard to produce something that's ornate and gilded. You couldn't use 3d printers to create complex shapes fast.
I think the modern person is so used to seeing cheap kitsch knockoffs of the real thing that they've started to perceive anything lush / ornate as kitsch. Which is a very interesting phenomenon. I think a lot of our furniture is just black and white boxes because of this phenomenon.

Here's an amazing American pool table from 100 years ago. Very nice inlays overall. It was handmade and probably took months and a team of people working on it. Today you could just use a CNC machine to do it in a matter of hours, and the modern person automatically assumes that's how it was made so there's no inherent respect for the work.

TL;DR: Poorfag issue