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 444
es in or-nament, and found it most convenient to endhis strapwork with a head, to broaden it outsomewhere into a body, to make it branchinto legs or wings, as best suited his composi-tion. In short, he invented his interlacings,and then by the addition of legs, wings, headand so on, converted it… … Grotesqi:ie fi6,tire, Alarco^entc da Ra-VenDa The Elei7ient of the Grotesque. 207 man being more adept in figure-work than inornament. In the design, for example, of theSchool of Fontainebleau there is no rest fromcreatures, human or animal, starting out atyou ; it is bursting out into life all…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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