Period furnishings; an encyclopedia of historic furniture, decorations and furnishings (1911)
Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins), 1858-1935 · New York, Clifford & Lawton · leaf 69
ance. Throughout the Eu-ropean countries dominatedby Gothic feeHng, weavingwas strongly influenced bythe Saracens. In lower Italy,Sicily and Spain this fact isobvious; the weavers perpet-uated in their arts the Sara-cenic style long- after alltraces of the Orient had beenobliterated by architect… … Saracenic, Twelfth Century. ians and French had prac-tically lost their Orientalcommerce that they turnedtheir attention to home manu-factures ; and not until thiscondition arose, were designsproduced, consistent with thecharacter of the prevailingarts. The acanthus formswere taken as motifs. The…
Interior decoration · Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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