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Ornament & its application; a book for students, treating in a practical way of the relation of design to material, tools and methods of work (1904)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 213

An illustration from Ornament & its application; a book for students, treating in a practical way of the relation of design to material, tools and methods of work, 1904, leaf 213 — are muchtoo ready with the condemnation overloaded with orna-ment. Ornament may be extremely rich and yet not over-loaded. Our northern temperament puts us too much out ofsympathy with the exuberance of oriental ornament to dojustice to the art with which an Eastern artificer will use 176 ORNAMENT… … 166. HENRI II. STRAPWORK DESIGN DERIVED FROM ORIENTALINTERLACING. ornament as a foil to ornament, relieving his arabesque notby plain ground but by other ornament—elaborate mouldingsperhaps (where we should use plain framing) or lettering onlyless ornamental than the damascening all about it…

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