Jones - The Grammar of Ornament: a Visual Reference of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts - The complete and unabridged full-color edition

First published in 1856, The Grammar of Ornament remains a design classic. Its inspiration came from pioneering British architect and designer Owen Jones (18091874), who produced a comprehensive design treatise for the machine age, lavishly illustrated in vivid chromolithographic color. Jones made detailed observations of decorative arts on his travels in Europe, the Middle East, and in his native London, where he studied objects on display at the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851 and at local museums. His aim was to improve the quality of Western design by changing the habits of Victorian designers, who indiscriminately mixed elements from a wide variety of sources.

A visual REFERENCE of FORM and COLOUR in ARCHITECTURE and the decorative ARTS

Owen Jones

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The Grammar of Ornament was first published in 1856 by Day & Son, Lincolns Inn Fields, London

This edition published in the United States of America and Canada in 2016 by

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Jacket art from original edition.

Chapter IV-Greek Ornament, Greek No. 5.

Chapter VIII-Arabian Ornament, Arabian No. 5.

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Print ISBN: 978-0-691-17206-4

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A note on this edition

This new edition of The Grammar of Ornament keeps Owen Joness original Victorian English much as it was written (and with the original English spelling), although we have redesigned the material into a modern, compact format. It has been necessary to reposition illustrations and to renumber the captions and cross references accordingly. Occasionally, for reasons of space, minor deletions in the captions have been required, but in the main Joness text differs little from the original version published in 1856 and we have tried to keep the spirit of his classic work.

The contemporary commentaries on the left-hand pages aim to set the period and the illustrations in context. The index is divided into two parts: references to the original book and references to the modern commentaries.

Inevitably some place-names have changed with the passage of time. In many cases this is simply a matter of spelling (Balbeck is now more commonly spelled Baalbek, Aboo-simbel as Abu Simbel), but in other cases names have altered completely. For ease of reference, the most common place-name changes are given below:

Asia Minor was the historical name for Anatolia,
the Asian part of Turkey

Burma is now officially known as Myanmar

Byzantium/Constantinople = Istanbul

Edfu = Idfu

Etruria was an area roughly equivalent to present-day Tuscany

Friendly Islands = Tonga

Ispahan = Esfahan

The Low Countries = the region of Europe consisting of
Belgium, the Netherlands, and usually Luxembourg

Nineveh = Kuyunjik

Persia = Iran

Sandwich Islands = Hawaii

Savage Island = Niue

Swabia = a region in southwest Germany.

CHAPTER I
Ornament of Savage Tribes

CHAPTER II
Egyptian Ornament

CHAPTER III
Assyrian and Persian Ornament

CHAPTER IV
Greek Ornament

CHAPTER V
Pompeian Ornament

CHAPTER VI
Roman Ornament

CHAPTER VII
Byzantine Ornament

CHAPTER VIII
Arabian Ornament

CHAPTER IX
Turkish Ornament

CHAPTER X
Moresque Ornament from the Alhambra

CHAPTER XI
Persian Ornament

CHAPTER XII
Indian Ornament