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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 52

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not ornament until it is applied.The purpose to which it is tobe put determines it from thevery beginning. It is neitheran after-thought nor an addedsomething, but inherent in thedesign of the thing to whichwe say it is applied ; it is notso much extra to it as a modifi-cation of it in the… … g. DESIGN APPLIED TOLEAD GLAZING. 16 ORNAMENT AND ITS APPLICATION. cally useful and artistically sufficing. In so far as his planis affected by considerations not purely utilitarian, he is en-gaged from the beginning in ornamental design ; and in so faras such design is schemed with a view to its…

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