I'll be honest, I've got skin in this game. When my partner and I bought a flat in a 70s-era building (read: fairly architecture-less), I wanted to add some form of decorative cornice or ceiling trim ...
The Victorians celebrated their ceilings. As well as high, the ceilings in their homes were often highly decorative, with spectacular rosettes, elaborate cornices and intricate architra­ves. Modernism ...