Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers (1872)
Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909, Glaisher, James, 1809-1903, Mackie, Samuel Joseph, Hunt, Robert, 1807-1887 · London, Virtue & co. · leaf 170
. Proposition 8.—All ornament should be based upon ageometrical construction. Proposition 9.—As in Architecture, so in the Decorative Arts,every assemblage of forms should be arranged on certain definite CRVSTALS OF SNOW. 155 proportions; the whole and each particular member should be amultiple of… … Fig. 38. an axiom—That there can be no perfect composition whereeither of the three primary elements is wanting—the straight,the inclined, and the curved, or where they are not so harmonizedthat the one preponderates over the other two. In the crystalsof snow we perceive these last conditions are…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Aesthetics)
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