Arbor vitae : a book on the nature & development of imaginative design for the use of teachers, handicraftsmen & others (1910)
Blount, Godfrey · London : A.C. Fifield · leaf 224
not to resort to its use more than isnecessary to give his whole work the conventional character itrequires (fig. 31). The absence of interest in a line, even a crookedone, when used as a border, is evidence that the enclosed design isitself formal enough. The most organic designs are…
Decoration and ornament
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