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Line & form (1902)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London : G. Bell · leaf 133

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1 think we shall find it in theconstructive necessities of architecture : for it iscertainly from architecture that we derive thosetypical spaces and panels the designer is so oftencalled upon to fill. Lintel architecture—the Egyptian and the Greek—gave us the frieze, both continuous, as in that… … ORIGIN OF GEOMETRIC DECORATIVE SPACESsculptured panel or slab inserted, and influencedthe character of its masses and the lines of its de-

Drawing · Decoration and ornament

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