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 478
tly ornamental rendering ofseaweed is given on Plate 112, in which thescroll, conventional as it is, does not brancheither accidentally or after the manner of anyflower, but is forked as seaweeds and lichensare. That form of growth is shown also inthe Japanese ornament on p. 222. It is strange how… … Pi^i^j iitli I.ondoi^ peacock l^eatber Pa11cn7-Japa-^(^SG. Still Life in Ornanie7it. 225 ribbons, the shreds develop into somethingso very much Hke conventional foliage, thatthe idea of drapery is often altogether lost.It is so in the frieze on p. 223 ; and in the oldGerman work on p. 224, where it…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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