We've all had that moment while perusing a flea market or junk store when you stumble across an item and have to yelp, 'Good lord, that is ugly!' So ugly, in fact, you have to marvel that it even got made in the first place.
But what exactly is considered ugly? Is it excessive ornamentation, like you might find in a Rococo palace? It is rough-hewn and flawed like a piece of folk art? Is it the shininess of carnival glass, or the inauthenticity of decorative objects meant to replicate nature? Collectors Weekly talked to British design critic Stephen Bayley about writing his book 'Ugly: The Aesthetics of Everything' and what it taught him.
(thanks Lisa)
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