Nature in ornament; an enquiry into the natural element in ornamental design & a survey of the ornamental treatment of natural forms (1902)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 166
d richness-^amodel of appropriate treatment. That is atall events one way of proceeding, namely,to design big, bold masses of foliage, andto break these again with smaller foliateddetail. That this should be done consistentlywould hardly need to be pointed out, were itnot that in old work… … Photo-Timt, d\ J.t»s Ai Details of 18 CeDtury foliage The Elaboration of Natural Forms. 73 homogeneous, it would be absurd to say thatit should not be constructed on the principleexemplified in Plate 34. That principle, indeed, dates farther backthan the Renaissance. The Italians borrowedit from…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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