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 241
d appear to have been the erroneousnotion that the leaf grew from a point ofjunction between the tendril and the stalk. Perhaps the most natural thing in thedesign is the way in which it is composed,very much in the way of the trellis—anothermethod of training that has survived withoutchange from… … 80. Italian wood-carving—^hop or vine ? grape bunches are much the same in out-line. In later Classic sculpture, especially inRoman work, the vine-leaf is often repre-sented naturally, only again without thevariety of nature, one shape doing dutythroughout. And here also we find the ten-drils…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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