The works below come from across disciplines. They are references.

Adolf Loos. Ornament and Crime, 1910. An essay arguing that ornament dooms an object to obsolescence, the ornament dates, and the object dies with it. The case for restraint as longevity.

Shaker design. A religious community's furniture, architecture, and daily life. Objects are austere, built for work rather than comfort, organized by the principle that every object has a designated place. Beauty arose from utility.

Vitsoe. An English furniture company that has manufactured the same three products in-house for over sixty years. Designed by Dieter Rams. His principle: less, but better.

John Pawson. Minimum, 1996. An architecture defined by absence. Bare walls, single materials carried across surfaces, no visible hardware. The principle: perfection is reached when nothing more can be subtracted.