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 216
d 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 their con-junction with ab-solutely artificiallines, and withfoliage of the usualRenaissance type,is… … .74. Graceful artificiality 98 Nature in Ornament. In the example on p. 97 the offence ofncoherence is somewhat mitigated, inasmuchas the detail is not very real. All sorts ofdifferent flowers grow from a single stemindeed, but the stem is not very obvious.There is a kind of natural confusion in…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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