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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. Neoclassical architecture - Wikipedia

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   At the forefront of the new school of design was the aristocratic "architect earl", Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington; in 1729, he and William Kent designed Chiswick House. This house was a reinterpretation of Palladio's Villa Capra "La Rotonda", but purified of 16th-century elements and ornament. This severe lack of ornamentation was to be ...

4. Ornament (art) - Wikipedia

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   Furthermore, architectural ornament can serve the practical purpose of establishing scale, signaling entries, and aiding wayfinding, and these useful design tactics had been outlawed. And by the mid-1950s, modernist figureheads Le Corbusier and Marcel Breuer had been breaking their own rules by producing highly expressive, sculptural concrete work.

5. Hallmark Cards - Wikipedia

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   Hallmark Cards, Inc. is a privately held, family-owned American company based in Kansas City, Missouri.Founded in 1910 by Joyce Hall, Hallmark was one of the oldest and largest manufacturer of greeting cards in the United States. [3]

6. Islamic ornament - Wikipedia

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   In his book,The Meditation on Ornament, Oleg Grabar departs from Gombrich's European-influenced position to show how ornament can be the subject of a design. He differentiates between filling a space with design, and transforming a space through design. Iran, Kharraqan, mausoleum, 1087, back. Grabar calls attention to the "iconophoric quality ...

7. Ornament and Crime - Wikipedia

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   Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, Characteristic attitudes and themes of European artists and architects, 1900–1930. Siegfried Giedion. Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition. Adolf Loos, "Ornament und Verbrechen" Adolf Loos: Sämtliche Schriften in zwei Bänden – Erster Band, Vienna, 1962. Joseph Rykwert.