The Grammar of Ornament A Visual Reference of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts 1st Edition by Owen Jones ISBN 1400882710 9781400882717

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ISBN 10: 1400882710

ISBN 13: 978-1400882717

Author:  Owen Jones 

The Grammar of Ornament: A Visual Reference of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts 1st Edition: 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.

 

The Grammar of Ornament: A Visual Reference of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts 1st Edition Table of contents:

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

 

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