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2. Owen Jones (architect) - Wikipedia

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   The final chapter, titled 'Leaves and Flowers from Nature' acknowledges the underlying principle that dictates the design of ornament around the world, which is the form found in nature: "in the best periods of art, all ornament was based upon an observation of the principles which regulate the arrangement of form in nature" and that "true art ...

3. Islamic geometric patterns - Wikipedia

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   Tomb towers of two Seljuk princes at Kharaghan, Qazvin province, Iran, covered with many different brick patterns like those that inspired Ahmad Rafsanjani to create auxetic materials. Computer graphics and computer-aided manufacturing make it possible to design and produce Islamic geometric patterns effectively and economically.

4. Ornament (art) - Wikipedia

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   Rawson, Jessica, Chinese Ornament: The lotus and the dragon, 1984, British Museum Publications, ISBN 0-7141-1431-6; Tabbaa, Yasser, The transformation of Islamic art during the Sunni revival, I.B.Tauris, 2002, ISBN 1-85043-392-5, ISBN 978-1-85043-392-7, google books; James Trilling The Language of Ornament

5. Ornament and Crime - Wikipedia

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   Only in 1929 was the essay published in German in the Frankfurter Zeitung, as Ornament und Verbrechen. It was the architect Henry Kulka , who assisted Loos during a reprint of the essay in 1931 in Trotzdem , that altered the original year to 1908 after he consulted Loos, who either didn't remember well or wanted to assume primacy in the ...

6. Plastic flamingo - Wikipedia

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   The American artist Don Featherstone designed the pink lawn flamingo in 1957, naming the first Diego. His lawn flamingo, mass-produced by his employer, Union Products, of Leominster, Massachusetts, has since become an icon of pop culture [1] that won him the Ig Nobel Prize for Art in 1996.

7. Parthenon - Wikipedia

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   The Parthenon (/ ˈ p ɑːr θ ə ˌ n ɒ n,-n ən /; Ancient Greek: Παρθενών, romanized: Parthenōn [par.tʰe.nɔ̌ːn]; Greek: Παρθενώνας, romanized: Parthenónas [parθeˈnonas]) is a former temple [6] [7] on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena.