Dresser, Christopher · London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 108
88 PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN. of this mode of treatment we give one illustration (Fig. 63) j yet nothing can be more absurd than such a treatment^ unless the wall is architecturally (structurally) arched. A wall may be so formed that some parts are thick^ so as to give the required strength, while other… … recesses and thickened piers alternately. This being the ease, the decoration should be so applied as to emphasise, or render apparent, this arched structure ; but if the wall is of one thickness throughout, its division into arches is absurd and foolish. We sometimes see great follies, and even…
Decoration and ornament
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