This wide-ranging surveys the Western tradition of ornament from Renaissance interiors to gypsy caravans to the decoration of airliners. Placing ornamental design in a social context, it traces the various ways ornament has been used, the rules of decorum and etiquette associated with it, and the social, moral and spiritual values that ornament has conveyed and represented through the past five centuries.
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This wide-ranging surveys the Western tradition of ornament from Renaissance interiors to gypsy caravans to the decoration of airliners. Placing ornamental design in a social context, it traces the various ways ornament has been used, the rules of decorum and etiquette associated with it, and the social, moral and spiritual values that ornament has conveyed and represented through the past five centuries.
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Good. Cover and edges show heavy shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact. Has some minor dirtiness on the outside. There is some slight dirtiness on the textblock/fore edge from handling. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 232 p. Audience: General/trade. Book Condition: Near fine. DJ. Condition: Near fine.
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Very good(+) 240 illustrations, in both color and black and white. 232pp. Small 4to, black cloth. New Haven: Yale University Press, (1996). A very good (+) copy.
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