Oshin Vartanian and his colleagues slipped a group of people inside a brain-scanning machine and flashed hundreds of interior designs -- some curvy, some angular -- in front of them. They then had the choice of describing each room as either "beautiful" or "not beautiful."
The study found that participants overwhelmingly preferred interior spaces with curving coffee tables, meandering sofas and winding floor patterns to rooms filled with angular furniture and rectilinear design.
— cnn.com
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The preference for curves and wiggles and squiggles is well documented. Read Arnheim ART AnD VISUAL PERCEPTION. Also Kohler on Gestalt Psychology. I think it's another German Hildebrand that writes about horizontal serpentine line ie wiggles as preferable to vertical , Is this imitation of nature as perception or hard wired values. Not clear from research i know. BTW Kohler is very good read on perception stuff. Better than Arnheim on this
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