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The bases of design (1898)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London : George Bell and Sons · leaf 37

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hi- balance, and reserve of ornament distinguishes tectural alike their seats and chairs and tables, caskets, Basis vases and vessels, and the expressive line of their dresses and dra- Architec- tural in- peries falling into the fluence in lines of the figure give design of small life and variety,… … upon design, and the qualities and principles we may learn from it generally. With the use of the round arch — invented, it is said, by the Greeks, but always associated with the Romans, who used it — quite different effects come in, with different motives and ideas !5

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