Today we present Persian decorative art styles found in Owen Jones’s
classic work The
Grammar of Ornament, published by Bernard
Quaritch in London in 1868. The book features 120 chromolithographic plates of design examples from across time, geography, and culture. In the
preface, Jones describes 37 propositions that are “general principles in the
arrangement of form and colour, in architecture and the decorative arts, which
are advocated throughout this work.” The plates we are highlighting today
showcase decorative art patterns found in illuminated manuscripts, tile work,
and architecture.
Icthyologists are so cute they’re like “39 species occur only in this five state area” and call this “great diversity” girl there are 39 species of arthropods living in my basement
The secluded village of Zalipie in southeastern Poland is home to a charming tradition. Over a century ago the women of the village began to paint their houses.
