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 70
lly with theirgrowth ; and where it comes to anything likenatural treatment, we have further to takeinto account the habits of a plant, its mannersand customs, so to speak—for which there is,of course, if we enquire into the matter,good structural reason always. It is, how-ever, with the outward… … Photo-Timt, iyj.mes Akerman London.W.C flower & leaf buds. Ornament in Nahire. 27 him that Nature is not so careful alwaysto emphasise botanical points as are some ofus, and that she appears often to break her ownlaws : or perhaps it would be more accurateto say, she breaks the laws we have…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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