Christina Svendsen in her essay on Baker, ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’, sheds the perfect light on the Baker House in her articulation of living ornament. In this sense, the Baker House is Loos’s masterpiece because he has entrapped the quintessential ‘ornament’ in the savage soul of Baker within the house, and is as such able to finally be rid of any need for external decoration. The house nevertheless requires a symbolism for Loos’s satisfaction that he is the master narrator but also for it to be communicated to an audience - the slave uniform stripes offer this cypher.