{"product_id":"2940014347495","title":"Principles Of Decorative Design","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CHAPTER I. PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    INTRODUCTORY\u003cbr\u003e      DIVISION I. ART-KNOWLEDGE; HISTORIC STYLES\u003cbr\u003e        \"     II. TRUTH, BEAUTY, POWER, ETC.\u003cbr\u003e        \"    III. HUMOUR IN ORNAMENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CHAPTER II.\u003cbr\u003e      COLOUR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CHAPTER III.\u003cbr\u003e      FURNITURE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CHAPTER IV.\u003cbr\u003e      DECORATION OF BUILDINGS\u003cbr\u003e        DIVISION I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS--CEILINGS\u003cbr\u003e          \"     II. DECORATIONS OF WALLS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CHAPTER V.\u003cbr\u003e      CARPETS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CHAPTER VI.\u003cbr\u003e      CURTAIN MATERIALS, HANGINGS, AND WOVEN FABRICS GENERALLY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CHAPTER VII.\u003cbr\u003e      HOLLOW VESSELS\u003cbr\u003e        DIVISION I. POTTERY\u003cbr\u003e          \"     II. GLASS VESSELS\u003cbr\u003e          \"    III. METAL-WORK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CHAPTER VIII.\u003cbr\u003e      HARDWARE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CHAPTER IX.\u003cbr\u003e      STAINED GLASS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CHAPTER X.\u003cbr\u003e      CONCLUSION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRINCIPLES OF DESIGN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDIVISION I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are many handicrafts in which a knowledge of the true principles\u003cbr\u003eof ornamentation is almost essential to success, and there are few in\u003cbr\u003ewhich a knowledge of decorative laws cannot be utilised. The man who\u003cbr\u003ecan form a bowl or a vase well is an artist, and so is the man who can\u003cbr\u003emake a beautiful chair or table. These are truths; but the converse of\u003cbr\u003ethese facts is also true; for if a man be not an artist he cannot form\u003cbr\u003ean elegant bowl, nor make a beautiful chair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the very outset we must recognise the fact that the beautiful has a\u003cbr\u003ecommercial or money value. We may even say that art can lend to an\u003cbr\u003eobject a value greater than that of the material of which it consists,\u003cbr\u003eeven when the object be formed of precious matter, as of rare marbles,\u003cbr\u003escarce woods, or silver or gold.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis being the case, it follows that the workman who can endow his\u003cbr\u003eproductions with those qualities or beauties which give value to his\u003cbr\u003eworks, must be more useful to his employer than the man who produces\u003cbr\u003eobjects devoid of such beauty, and his time must be of higher value\u003cbr\u003ethan that of his less skilful companion. If a man, who has been born\u003cbr\u003eand brought up as a \"son of toil,\" has that laudable ambition which\u003cbr\u003ecauses him to seek to rise above his fellows by fairly becoming their\u003cbr\u003esuperior, I would say to him that I know of no means of his so readily\u003cbr\u003edoing so, as by his acquainting himself with the laws of beauty, and\u003cbr\u003estudying till he learns to perceive the difference between the\u003cbr\u003ebeautiful and the ugly, the graceful and the deformed, the refined and\u003cbr\u003ethe coarse. To perceive delicate beauties is not by any means an easy\u003cbr\u003etask to those who have not devoted themselves to the consideration of\u003cbr\u003ethe beautiful for a long period of time, and of this be assured, that\u003cbr\u003ewhat now appears to you to be beautiful, you may shortly regard as\u003cbr\u003eless so, and what now fails to attract you, may ultimately become\u003cbr\u003echarming to your eye. In your study of the beautiful, do not be led\u003cbr\u003eaway by the false judgment of ignorant persons who may suppose\u003cbr\u003ethemselves possessed of good taste. It is common to assume that women\u003cbr\u003ehave better taste than men, and some women seem to consider themselves\u003cbr\u003ethe possessors of even authoritative taste from which there can be no\u003cbr\u003eappeal. They may be right, only we must be pardoned for not accepting\u003cbr\u003esuch authority, for should there be any over-estimation of the\u003cbr\u003eaccuracy of this good taste, serious loss of progress in art-judgment\u003cbr\u003emight result.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073998504176,"sku":"2940014347495","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014347495_p0.jpg?v=1763606367","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014347495","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}