Pop Art-Star Andy Warhol rejoiced the aesthetic value of commodities. Without manipulation or modification, he merely proclaimed an object’s uselessness and transformed products, like Brillo boxes into Brillo Boxes (1964). Fast-track to today, looking good is just as important for products as it is for mingling Bushwick socialites. The plethora of products, the multiplicity of commodities, wages a war in the name of quality despite quantity. A fine line divides beautiful design and beauty for its own right. In the name of art, the diverging point is its purpose for the people—its useful, or useless-ness.


