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 320
he ver-sions of the ohveon Plates 50 and81 need only justbe alluded to. There is some-thing to be learntfrom a comparisonof the various con-ventional trees, As-syrian on pp. 142and 239 and Plate80, Greek onPlates 24 and 81,Roman on p. 59,Indian on Plate yy,Coptic on Plates49 and 57, Sicilianand… … 144 Nahire in Ornament. tree into its elements and made it into orna-ment, reducing its outline in many cases tothe shape of a single leaf, and its branchesto something like smaller leaves. Those towhom such rendering of natural form doesnot come easily, by instinct as it were, werenot born for…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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