Ornements d'architecture / Bonfils & Laval
Ornements d'architecture is a Paris trade catalogue of architectural ornament issued in 1901 by the firm Bonfils & Laval, offered to builders, metalworkers and decorators as a price-listed sheet of sample pieces. Its plates show cast-iron and metal cornices, balustrades and roof finials in Louis XIV and early twentieth-century styles, each drawn in plain engraved line with dimensions and prices printed beneath. A designer can draw from the scrolled acanthus friezes, the lyre-and-volute balusters and the crested ridge cresting, all of which read clearly at small size.
