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The bases of design (1902)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 377

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s established by use and wont, and is oftenassociated with fundamental ideas of life and theuniverse itself. Thus we get traditional ornament,handed on from generation to generation, its originand meaning perhaps lost—like the pictorial sig-nificance of the individual letters of our alphabet,which…

Decoration and ornament

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