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 373
129. Abstract foliage—Persian inlay. as a painted frieze, such a rendering has itsraison detre. There is no need to say thatmy own sympathies lean towards somethingmore severe in design. The delightfully restrained foliage above,so absolutely ornamental that it might have 170 Nature in Ornament, … j<<^ ^M 130. Woild-be ornamentalcelandine. been derived from anyone of a hundred dif-ferent plants, designedby a man who probablycould not have painted anatural flower to save hislife, fulfils almost per-fectly the conditions ofornament. Albertollisfeeble celandine opposite |fails, on the…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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