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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 466

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rnishes him withan idea for decoration. The spiders web, with leaves and flowerscaught in it(p. 214), sug-gests to him adiaper. He is farindeed fromconforming toour ideas ofsymmetry. Hedoes little more in somecases than dis-pose naturalshapes, ren-dered in the simplest possible manner, inan order… … 160. Water and water-lilies. 2l8 Nature in Ornament.

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