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New Grammar of Ornament

New Grammar of Ornament

Weil, Thomas
Schütz, Heinz
Will, Manuel

Paperback

Fashion & AccessoriesGeneral ArtGeneral Design

Publisher Price: $46.00

ISBN10: 3037786531
ISBN13: 9783037786536
Publisher: Lars Muller Publ
Published: Dec 28 2021
Pages: 336
Weight: 2.00
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.80 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

Updating Owen Jones' 1856 classic: the new standard typology of ornament, spanning centuries and cultures

Ornaments are omnipresent: they can be found on buildings, fabrics, jewelry, tiles, ceramics and wallpaper. Scorned at the outset of the modern age, ornament has long since returned to architecture and influences design drafts as much as tattoo motifs. In New Grammar of Ornament, German architect and designer Thomas Weil compares current ornamental objects with the results of archaeological research on ornamental artifacts, and concludes that there is an anthropological constant. From the recurring arrangements of stripes, rectangles, triangles and dots and the frequency of the forms of floral ornaments used, he derives a new grammar of ornament. More than 160 years after Owen Jones' publication of that name, New Grammar of Ornament is a new reference work. It categorizes the variety of ornamental forms used worldwide and places them in a major art and cultural-historical context.

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