Many of the Bauhaus faculty were architects and industrial designers, whose principles demanded that the types they used, like the buildings and machines they designed, be sharp and unornamented, symbolic of a machine-dominated society.
But it was also the Minimalists, as art historians have pointed out, who carried over the vocabulary of the new International Style of unornamented architecture into the world of the fine arts; Minimalism imagined the dialogue between street and studio in terms of hard edges and simple forms rather than in terms of imagery, but it took part in the same dialogue.
Early armorial bookplates in 16th-century England consisted of a simple unornamented shield, symmetrically mantled helmet, crest, and a scroll beneath for the owner's name.
With the occasional exception of multinote flurries, his melodic style was direct and unornamented, based on quarter notes and rich with inflections.
Early in his career he made simple vessels, such as tankards and teapots, in an unornamented Queen Anne style, and more pretentious works, such as a large wine cistern for the first Earl of Gower (1719), in an ornamented style associated with the work of French Huguenot craftsmen.
Philip II preferred the unornamented and monumental architecture of Juan de Herrera, the greatest Spanish architect of the century.
The manufacture of unornamented brass plates centred chiefly at Cologne.
Most pewter work was unornamented, but some items (usually for display only) were painted, enameled, gilded, and even inlaid with other metals, such as brass.
He introduced a direct, unpretentious style and a clear, unornamented construction adapted from national folk songs.
The shell is largely unornamented and wider to accommodate the greatly elongated siphons, which can be retracted deeply within its borders.
By shrewdly sensing the Zeitgeist, Chanel began turning out matrons and débutantes on whom unornamented, workmanlike, though expensive, gowns and glass jewelry were exciting, chic, and becoming.
