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2. Ornament (art) - Wikipedia

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   Ornament (art) Rococo interior of the Wilhering Abbey (Wilhering, Austria), with a trompe-l'œil painted ceiling, surrounded by highly decorated stucco. In architecture and decorative art, ornament is decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object. Large figurative elements such as monumental sculpture and their equivalents in ...

3. Ornament and Crime - Wikipedia

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   Contrary to popular belief that it was composed in 1908, Adolf Loos first gave the lecture in 1910 at the Akademischer Verband für Literatur und Musik in Vienna. The essay was then published in 1913 in Les Cahiers d’aujourd’hui in French as Ornement et Crime. Only in 1929 was the essay published in German in the Frankfurter Zeitung, as ...

4. Owen Jones (architect) - Wikipedia

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   Great Exhibition, 1851. Owen Jones (15 February 1809 – 19 April 1874) was a British architect. A versatile architect and designer, he was also one of the most influential design theorists of the nineteenth century. [1] He helped pioneer modern colour theory, [2] and his theories on flat patterning and ornament still resonate with contemporary ...

5. Christmas ornament - Wikipedia

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   Christmas ornaments, baubles, globes, "Christmas bulbs", or "Christmas bubbles" are decoration items, usually to decorate Christmas trees. These decorations may be woven, blown (glass or plastic), molded (ceramic or metal), carved from wood or expanded polystyrene, or made by other techniques. Ornaments are available in a variety of geometric ...

6. Viking art - Wikipedia

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   Gold jewellery from the 10th century Hiddensee treasure, mixing Norse pagan and Christian symbols. Pair of "tortoise brooches," which were worn by married Viking women. Viking art, also known commonly as Norse art, is a term widely accepted for the art of Scandinavian Norsemen and Viking settlements further afield—particularly in the British Isles and Iceland—during the Viking Age of the ...

7. Christopher Radko - Wikipedia

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   Designer, businessman. Known for. Founding the eponymous Christmas ornaments brand. Christopher Radko is an American businessman and designer known for starting the eponymous Christmas ornaments business. [1][2] He is called the "Czar of the Christmas Present" by The New York Times and the "Ornament King'' by the Chicago Tribune. [1][3][4]