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L'arte nell'industria : lavori di legno e pastiglia, lavori di metallo, lavori di pietra, marmo, alabastro, ceramica, musaico, vetro, lavori di osso e avorio, lavori tessili, carte da parati e cuoi decorati, ricami, pizzi, cartelloni, stampe, ecc.

Melani, Alfredo, b. 1859 · 1907 · Milano : F. Vallardi · 483 pictures

A survey of the applied arts by Alfredo Melani, published in Milan by Vallardi in 1907 for craftsmen, designers and art-industry students, covering woodwork and pastiglia, metal, stone and marble, ceramics, mosaic, glass, ivory, textiles, wallpaper, embroidery, lace, posters and prints. The plates are line drawings of objects and their ornament, with hatched shading and flat blackline pattern fields, useful for Gothic arcading, keyhole escutcheons and lock plates, foliate borders, and square panel rosettes that can be lifted as repeat motifs.

Decoration and ornament · Industrial arts · Decorative arts

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