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 184
without it ? TheGothic scroll wouldbe robbed of halfits energy, theTudor rose would be resolved into a 64. Bulbous hop leaves-Oerman Gothic. flat rosette, the leafage of Aldegrever (p. 124) would lose alits crispness. I have resorted freely to theuse of overlapping in Plate 38, a wall… … 82 Nature in Ornament, sort of precedent even for the be-frillingof floral growth. Certain ferns grow withevery appearance of artificiality. There is aparticular kind of cabbage, much in favourwith Mediaeval illuminators, which grows verymuch as though the milliner had taken it inhand ; and there…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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