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The World of Ornament

By David Batterham
Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
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The World of Ornament is a comprehensive visual anthology uniting the finest 19th-century encyclopaedias on decorative patterns and ornamental designs. Featuring works from Auguste Racinet and Auguste Dupont-Auberville, it spans a rich tapestry of styles including classical, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Asian, Middle Eastern, and diverse European motifs from medieval to 19th-century times. This collection serves as a lavish reference across media such as jewellery, tiles, stained glass, illuminated manuscripts, textiles, and ceramics.
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Format: Hardback
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This book is ideal for artists, historians, designers, and patternmakers, as well as anyone interested in decorative arts and cultural aesthetics.

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The World of Ornament brings together the two greatest encyclopedic collections of ornament of the 19th century: Auguste Racinet's L'Ornement polychrome Volumes I and II and Auguste Dupont-Auberville's L'Ornement des tissus to provide one lavish source book spanning jewelry, tile, stained glass, illuminated manuscript, textile and ceramic ornament.

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Discover a world of decorative ideas with this compendium of history's most elegant patterns and ornamental designs.

The World of Ornament brings together the two greatest encyclopedic collections of ornament of the 19th century: Auguste Racinet's L'Ornement polychrome Volumes I and II (1875-1888) and Auguste Dupont-Auberville's L'Ornement des tissus (1877) to provide one lavish source book spanning jewellery, tile, stained glass, illuminated manuscript, textile, and ceramic ornament.

Encompassing classical, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Asian and Middle Eastern, as well as European designs from medieval times through the 19th century, this compilation of cultures and aesthetics offers a primary reference for artists, historians, designers, and pattern-makers, and anyone engaged in decorative design and impact.

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The Wall Street Journal called it "a magnificent encyclopaedia of adornment," while Elle Decoration praised it as "an invaluable source book that presents beautiful patterns dating from antiquity to the 19th century."

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783836556255

Publisher: Taschen GmbH

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 10 March 2015

Country: Germany

Imprint: Taschen GmbH

Edition: Multilingual edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 41.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 195.0mm

Weight: 1189g

Pages: 824

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Arts & Culture David Batterham Non-Fiction Series: Bibliotheca Universalis

About the Author

David Batterham has been an antiquarian bookseller in London since 1965. He specializes in books and journals on the graphic arts, ornament, fashion, and caricature with an emphasis on work from France and Spain.

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