Plant analysis, distemper color, bookcover designing, carpet designing, oilcloth and linoleum designing, wallpaper designing, the American vignola, color harmony (1905)
Scranton, Pa. : International Textbook Company · leaf 472
all the details of the Order, it follows that, for a given width of front, the larger the mouldings are, the steeper must be the slope. Upon this is founded the following rule for the slope of Pediments, devised by Stanislas L’Eveille, Fig. 149: Taking the upper line of the Horizontal Cornice as… … as a center, describe a circle, the radius of which is equal to the width of the horizontal cornice. Lines drawn from the extremities of the Corona tangent to this circle will give the upper line of the Raking Corona. It is obvious that the larger the cornice, relatively to the length of the front,…
Decoration and ornament · Design
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