Grammatik der Ornamente (Grammar of Ornament)
Grammatik der Ornamente (Grammar of Ornament)
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JONES, Owen. Grammatik der Ornamente (Grammar of Ornament)
Cl. Day and Son 1856
Book ID: 99796
First edition. Owen Jones (1809-1874), English architect, designer, writer and illustrator; influential theorist of principles of ornamental designs. He published in 1856 the important Grammar of Ornament, a joint production with M.D. Wyatt, which contained examples of the decorative motifs of all countries and all historical periods. It proved to be a veritable bank of decorative ideas for nineteenth-century designers. William Morris and Christopher Dresser were known to have copies in their libraries. Josef Hoffman used it as a sourcebook to turn Austrian Jugendstil to a more rigorous formalism. This monumental work contains 112 color plates (the first book to have full-color plates printed by chromolithography), each measuring 8.5 x 13 inches, as well as 20 essays on various styles from primitive ones to those of the Eastern and Western civilizations. It also contains a list of "General Principles in the Arrangement of Form and Color, in Architecture and the Decorative Arts." It established the guidelines for a new generation of designers in its analytical approach to design. Tall folio, wine morocco covers with gilt designs and gilded pages 112 chromolithographs, incredible color. Cracking between spine and front cover; cover has minor staining and is worn along edges and at corners. German
