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 182
63. Elaborated flower. goldsmiths work. You see that bossy cha-racter in the rendering of the hop on p. 81,and in the leaves on pp. iii, 112, 118, 119.The limits within which the character of … Wall paper, conveDtiooal ^growth The Elaboration of Natural Forms. 81 one material may fairly be given to anotherare soon reached. It is clearly a mistake intaste to give, as Gothic carvers did, to leavesin wood or stone the bulbous look of beatenmetal, or to give to an embroidered scroll…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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