The Grammar of Ornament: A Visual Reference of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts – The complete and unabridged full-color edition

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The complete and unabridged full-color edition

First published in 1856, The Grammar of Ornament remains a design classic. Its inspiration came from pioneering British architect and designer Owen Jones (1809–1874), who produced a comprehensive design treatise for the machine age, lavishly illustrated in vivid chromolithographic color. Jones made detailed observations of decorative arts on his travels in Europe, the Middle East, and in his native London, where he studied objects on display on the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851 and at local museums. His aim used to be to give a boost to the standard of Western design by changing the habits of Victorian designers, who indiscriminately mixed elements from all kinds of sources.

Jones’s resulting study is a comprehensive analysis of styles of decorative design, presenting key examples starting from Maori tattoos, Egyptian columns, and Greek borders to Byzantine mosaic, Indian embroidery, and Elizabethan carvings. Immediately splendidly Victorian and insistently up to date, The Grammar of Ornament celebrates objects of beauty from across time periods and continents, and remains an indispensable sourcebook as of late.

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