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 214
th the idea of sturdyangularity. The rendering of a plant may be by nomeans very natural, and yet by far too muchso. In the ornament above, the flower is toodistinctly an orchid to go with foliage dis-tinctly belonging to another family. This isa fault rather exceptional in Japanese design,where… … o p (/){/) P Consistency in Modification of Nattire. 97 rence : the nuts, the pods, and the five-petalled flowers on Plate45, are not espe-cially life-like; butthat forms so im-mediately recog-nisable as nutsand pea - podsshould grow fromthe same stalk asa flower of fivepetals, to say no-thing of…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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