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Sometimes, there are simply too many rectangles.

But this sentiment is just a function of its time—for example, in this
glorious manufacturer’s catalog by the Armstrong Cork Company (of Lancaster,
PA), the incredibly-titled Business Floors, there simply aren’t enough rectangles
to go around. 

For example:

  

And the perspective-bending distortions of this office, the point of view pulling the squares into rectangles before your eyes:

And this mysterious masterpiece, which the cork company calls “simple”.  It is true that there is virtually nothing in this shop that draws the eye of the customer away from the clerk (the goods are stacked away perfectly in uniform boxes around the walls of the store), but the hundreds and hundreds of rectangles do nothing but confuse.  And aggravate.  A little Einstein on the Beach on the PA system and there would be no customers at all.