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 54
ng through ; so muchso that the thorough-wax (same plate),owes its name to that appearance. Still moreplainly does the stem seem to grow throughwhere the leaves are opposite and growtogether round it, as in the teasel and thehoneysuckle. The arbitrary ornamentation of the stemin the Romanesque… … J>iermaii,Piicito-lith London Natural leaf sheaths Ornament in Nature. 19 realised when he went to the river-side for a reed as motif for theornamentation of his candelabrum.Certain fruits have, as I said,been made use of in design, eitheras affording convenient masses inthe composition or, like…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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