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 322
nk necessarily good,but the degree of naturalism on the one hand,and of convention on the other, which seemto me personally permissible in ornament. To any one in the least susceptible tonatural beauty, it is not difficult to under-stand the resentment which some personsfeel towards any… … C r KELl. mOTO-llTHO.e.FUHNlV*L S» HOLBOHN.t.C. Comparatively natural Lily Panel More Parallels. 145 and fields of corn. They too are beautiful ;not the less so that they owe something tothe hand of man. It is, after all, a false andrather a cowardly sentiment which makes usafraid of disturbing…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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