DOI article:
On the interior arrangement and decoration of the house
DOI article:Wall and ceiling decoration
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19423#0135
Wall and Ceiling Decoration
the "imperial" designed by g. c. haite
wall-paper executed by jeffrey & co.
Take, for example, the fleur-de-lys, a stereotyped
form which has become so abstracted and apart
that to introduce it in connection with organic
growth, such as stalks and leaves, would be a con-
fusion of ideas that must inevitably produce an
illogical result. It is wisest altogether, for the sake
of unity, to avoid combining, in the same design,
purely abstract and non-existent vegetable forms
with those of known and recognisable botanical
varieties. Neither again can ornaments with such
widely divergent architectural and historical asso-
ciations as Classic and Gothic properly combine in
one pattern. Thus it would be altogether anomalous
to place together Grecian honeysuckle and Tudor
roses.
A convention, once adopted, should be con-
sistently maintained throughout a pattern. For
instance, in the case of Mr. George Haite's heraldic
designs, the "Imperial" and the "Havelock"
curved teeth of the lion, ought to be inclined
downward toward the root.
Again, in the sphere of ornament itself there are
distinct planes or degrees of conventionalisation
which must not be confounded with one another.
the olympia designed by g. c haite
wall-paper executed by jeffrey & co.
on this page, executed by Messrs. Jeffrey, it would
have been inartistic to have introduced non-heraldic
elements, worse still to have represented, together
with these heraldic lions, any beasts of zoological
order. In the " Imperial" design the lions and
crowns show up brilliantly in red on a blue
ground, with green wash-tint leaves and golden-
brown acorns and olive berries. Of the different
colourings in which the " Havelock " paper is issued,
the havelock " designed by g. c. haite
wall-paper executed by Jeffrey & co. it is perhaps most eflective with red lions, green
119
the "imperial" designed by g. c. haite
wall-paper executed by jeffrey & co.
Take, for example, the fleur-de-lys, a stereotyped
form which has become so abstracted and apart
that to introduce it in connection with organic
growth, such as stalks and leaves, would be a con-
fusion of ideas that must inevitably produce an
illogical result. It is wisest altogether, for the sake
of unity, to avoid combining, in the same design,
purely abstract and non-existent vegetable forms
with those of known and recognisable botanical
varieties. Neither again can ornaments with such
widely divergent architectural and historical asso-
ciations as Classic and Gothic properly combine in
one pattern. Thus it would be altogether anomalous
to place together Grecian honeysuckle and Tudor
roses.
A convention, once adopted, should be con-
sistently maintained throughout a pattern. For
instance, in the case of Mr. George Haite's heraldic
designs, the "Imperial" and the "Havelock"
curved teeth of the lion, ought to be inclined
downward toward the root.
Again, in the sphere of ornament itself there are
distinct planes or degrees of conventionalisation
which must not be confounded with one another.
the olympia designed by g. c haite
wall-paper executed by jeffrey & co.
on this page, executed by Messrs. Jeffrey, it would
have been inartistic to have introduced non-heraldic
elements, worse still to have represented, together
with these heraldic lions, any beasts of zoological
order. In the " Imperial" design the lions and
crowns show up brilliantly in red on a blue
ground, with green wash-tint leaves and golden-
brown acorns and olive berries. Of the different
colourings in which the " Havelock " paper is issued,
the havelock " designed by g. c. haite
wall-paper executed by Jeffrey & co. it is perhaps most eflective with red lions, green
119