The romance of design
The Romance of Design, by Garnet Warren, published in Garden City, New York, by Doubleday, Page & Co. in 1926, is a general history of decorative pattern and ornament, written for readers interested in the making of design. Its pictures are halftone photographs of historic textiles and ornamental panels, including a dense interlaced silk, a symmetrical animal-and-bird damask, and an 18th-century Adam-style wallpaper, with a portrait framed by ornamental borders; a designer can take from them the repeat structures, scale contrasts, and symmetrical layouts of historic patterns.
