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Méthode de composition ornementale

Grasset, Eugène, 1841-1917 · 1905 · Paris, Librairie centrale des beaux-arts · 38 pictures

Méthode de composition ornementale is a 1905 Paris ornament manual by Eugène Grasset, published by the Librairie centrale des beaux-arts for designers and students of decoration. Its numbered plates break down geometric grids into tiling and pattern construction. The pictures show lettered grid diagrams beside finished repeat patterns of interlocking triangles, squares, and fret-like motifs, showing a designer how a simple module can be subdivided and repeated into surface decoration.

Decoration and ornament

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