oration. Instead of giving us meaningless patternsmechanically applied, without regard to anythingexcept the size and shape of the space to be covered,instead of giving us bad substitutes for easel pictures,he has always borne in mind the principle, undeni-able but generally held platonically, that… … DRAGON FLY HANGING, DESIGNED BY HERMANN OBKISTEXECUTED BY BERTHA RLXHET object it has to decorate. And this he alwayssucceeds in doing, although never in obviousmanner, like a door-mat with Welcome or Cave Canem upon it. He has, let us say, aportfolio or book-cover to decorate, what is thefunction…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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