Description

A whole and unabridged complete-colour variation of the vintage sourcebook on decorative design

First revealed in 1856, The Grammar of Ornament continues to be a layout vintage. Its concept got here from pioneering British architect and dressmaker Owen Jones (1809–1874), who produced a complete layout treatise for the device age, lavishly illustrated in shiny chromolithographic colour. Jones made special observations of decorative arts on his travels in Europe, the Heart East, and in his native London, the place he studied gadgets on show on the Nice Exhibition of the Works of Trade of All International locations in 1851 and at native museums. His goal was once to support the standard of Western layout through converting the behavior of Victorian designers, who indiscriminately combined parts from all kinds of assets.

Jones’s ensuing look at is a complete research of kinds of decorative layout, providing key examples starting from Maori tattoos, Egyptian columns, and Greek borders to Byzantine mosaic, Indian embroidery, and Elizabethan carvings. Immediately wonderfully Victorian and insistently up to date, The Grammar of Ornament celebrates gadgets of attractiveness from throughout time sessions and continents, and continues to be an quintessential sourcebook lately.