Description

Discover an international of ornamental concepts with this compendium of historical past’s such a lot sublime styles and decorative designs.

Once out of print, The International of Decoration brings in combination the 2 largest encyclopedic collections of Decoration of the nineteenth century: Auguste Racinet’s L’Ornement polychrome Volumes I and II (1875–1888) and Auguste Dupont-Auberville’s L’Ornement des tissus (1877) to offer one lavish, vital supply ebook spanning jewellery, tile, stained glass, illuminated manuscript, fabric and ceramic Decoration.

Encompassing classical, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Asian and heart-Jap, in addition to Eu designs from medieval occasions during the nineteenth century, this compilation of cultures and esthetics gives a number one reference for artists, historians, designers and patternmakers, and someone engaged in ornamental layout and have an effect on.