Dresser, Christopher · London ; New York : Cassell Petter & Galpin · leaf 88
compensating weight to the margin. I have recentlydesigned and seen carried out one or two centre ornaments for drawing-rooms,which ornaments were twenty-one feet in diameter. A centre ornament, if properlytreated, may be very large without looking heavy; it may, indeed, extend at leasttwo-thirds… … Yig. 5-2. 78 ritlNCITLES OF DESIGN. must not fictitiously represent relief, for no shadod ornament can be pleasant -whenjilaced as the decoration of a flat architectural surface. I have already noticed that the decoration of a room should be in characterwith its architecture, but that while this…
Decoration and ornament
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