It’s as if they had a hose that sprayed patterns. This is a common plague in the “creative” period of American home design - everything is the same pattern. This means that people mistake the shelf for a sofa, and snap it right off.

Note the small onyx statue of a volcano giving birth to Marge Simpson.

Also, note the real horror reflected in the mirror - an entirely different busy, annoying pattern, which no doubt smothers the shelf, laps at the molding and swamps three chairs and a lamp.