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Plants and Their Application to Ornament: A Nineteenth-Century Design Primer | 
 enlarge | Author: Eugene Grasset
Creator: David P. Becker
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 111930
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 104
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 13.3 x 11.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0811861457
Dewey Decimal Number: 745.4
EAN: 9780811861458
ASIN: 0811861457
Publication Date: December 20, 2007
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Product Description
Elegant botanical illustrations from the classic 1897 design book Plants and Their Application to Ornament are reproduced in this lavish collection. Sure to delight artists, designers, and fans of the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau styles, this gorgeous volume features flowering plants depicted as realistic natural history-style illustrations and stylized images demonstrating plant-based design motifs used on textiles, wallpapers, and more. Published in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this deluxe edition presents an important art history artifact, a useful design reference, and a lovely and ornamental objet d'art.
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 Fantastic resource for all designers May 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is absolutely beautiful. The illustrations are on a creamy base paper, and it's just like looking through a volume of original art nouveaux designs painted in gouache.
It's a fabulous resource for designers and design students of all kinds, as it explores how to stretch out a theme (in this case each variety of plant) into a range of different pattern and motif ideas and applications. There are lots of motifs and inspirations for new work to be found within!
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful book....love it.
Beautiful in it's own right! May 17, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The use of natural elements in art and design probably reached it's zenith during the Arts and Crafts movement. This reproduction of an original 1897 guide to the use of plants in ornamental design is a wonderful example of that time! Although not nearly as extensive as Owen Jones' famous ornamental tome. This release focuses on just the natural aspects of design in reference to plants. However, like Jones' book, this focuses lightly on text and is heavy on letting the graphics speak for themselves. (as they should!)
Beautifully reproduced images in a fine binding make this a wonderful addition to any collection.
 The cover's the best part... May 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Although this book is beautiful (the cover is better than what is inside) it is not of the print quality I'd hoped. It looks as though it was slapped together rather hastily with little regard for creating a quality book. However, it looks good on the table in the living room of my 1929 bungalow.
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