New Grammar of Ornament

New Grammar of Ornament

Release: 2021
Volume: 336 pages
Format: 17 x 24 x 5
Price: 42.00 

In New Grammar of Ornament, 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.”
Ornaments are omnipresent—they can be found on buildings, fabrics, jewelry, tiles, ceramics and wallpaper. Scorned at the beginning of the modern age, ornament has long since returned to architecture and influences design drafts as much as tattoo motifs.
More than 160 years after Owen Jones' influential publication, New Grammar of Ornament is a new standard work. It categorizes the variety of ornamental forms used worldwide and for the first time places them in a major art and cultural-historical context.

Publisher

Lars Müller Publishers

Author
Design

Boah Kim

Language

English

Format in cm (w × h × d)

17 x 24 x 5

Volume

336 pages

Release

2021

ISBN

978-3-03778-653-6

New Grammar of Ornament