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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 350

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, to work oneselfinto a state of mind in which it seemsplausible enough, if not quite proven, that allornament is derived from a single source, the hom or date-palm, to wit. But withoutgoing quite so far as Sir George Birdwood inhis ingenious theory as to the development ofthe knop-and-flower… … p -+— 3- p o CO P^ Tradition in Design, 159

Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)

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