Miller, Fred, decorative artist · New York, London, Truslove, Hanson & Comba, Ld. · leaf 136
We must think of everything as a shape, as asilhouette in fact, and not as a transcript of nature. Acertain ingenuity, therefore, should be displayed in the waywe combine our forms, seeing that there is no chance givenus of showing our skill in giving a true and faithful 1coppie of the natural… … No. 84.—Simple continuous Border, in which the stems are made theleading feature, nature being only distantly suggested in the fruit and leaves. the limitations imposed on us by our craft. We can takethe utmost licence with nature, twist a stem into a zigzag,continuous scroll, or other geometrical…
Decorative arts · Decoration and ornament
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