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The bases of design (1902)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 104

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GERMAN r.EER MUGS. refer to a curiou : correspondence in design motivein two different materials. The ordinary Italian oil or wine flask is one ofthe most charmino- of modern useful vessels. It issimply a piece of blown glass of the form firstassumed by the molten glass when blown at the To make… … 83 \\\K UriLTlV liASIS AND INFLUENCEprimitive but elegant bottle portable and enable itto stand, it is bound around by a twist of rushes, orcane leaves twisted into a circular stand, andbraced by vertical broader bands of the untwistedleaf at intervals, and a loop of the twist is twinedaround the…

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