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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 60

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t to believe.But practical experience in design leaves no doubt about it.In the case of design for manufacture it hardly needs demon-stration. Take wallpaper printing. The given conditionsare something like these : a dwelling-room of ordinary pro-portions, to serve as drawing-room, dining-room,… … quality of distemper colour ; the numberof printings commercially worth while.In short, the requirements of the public,of the decorator, and of the paperstainer,have all to be satisfied. How best tomeet them, that is the problem whichthe artist has to solve in his design. And it is so with other…

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