The Grammar of Ornament
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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 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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A complete and unabridged full-color edition of the classic sourcebook on ornamental design 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 at the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851 and at local museums. His aim was to improve the quality of Western design by changing the habits of Victorian designers, who indiscriminately mixed elements from a wide variety of sources.Jones's resulting study is a comprehensive analysis of styles of ornamental design, presenting key examples ranging from Maori tattoos, Egyptian columns, and Greek borders to Byzantine mosaic, Indian embroidery, and Elizabethan carvings. At once splendidly Victorian and insistently modern, The Grammar of Ornament celebrates objects of beauty from across time periods and continents, and remains an indispensable sourcebook today.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781400882717
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Architecture General

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Preface to Owen Jones’s Original Folio Edition
  7. General Principles
  8. CHAPTER I: Ornament of Savage Tribes
  9. CHAPTER II: Egyptian Ornament
  10. CHAPTER III: Assyrian and Persian Ornament
  11. CHAPTER IV: Greek Ornament
  12. CHAPTER V: Pompeian Ornament
  13. CHAPTER VI: Roman Ornament
  14. CHAPTER VII: Byzantine Ornament
  15. CHAPTER VIII: Arabian Ornament
  16. CHAPTER IX: Turkish Ornament
  17. CHAPTER X: Moresque Ornament from the Alhambra
  18. CHAPTER XI: Persian Ornament
  19. CHAPTER XII: Indian Ornament
  20. CHAPTER XIII: Hindoo Ornament
  21. CHAPTER XIV: Chinese Ornament
  22. CHAPTER XV: Celtic Ornament
  23. CHAPTER XVI: MediĂŚval Ornament
  24. CHAPTER XVII: Renaissance Ornament
  25. CHAPTER XVIII: Elizabethan Ornament
  26. CHAPTER XIX: Italian Ornament
  27. CHAPTER XX: Leaves and Flowers from Nature
  28. Index to the Commentaries and Introduction
  29. Index to Owen Jones’s Text
  30. Owen Jones: A Chronology