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Discover a world of ornamental concepts with this compendium of history’s most sophisticated patterns and decorative styles.
As soon as out of print, The World of Accessory combines the 2 biggest encyclopedic collections of accessory of the 19th century: Auguste Racinet’s L’Ornement polychrome Volumes I and II (1875– 1888) and Auguste Dupont-Auberville’s L’Ornement des tissus (1877) to supply one luxurious, important source book covering fashion jewelry, tile, stained glass, brightened manuscript, fabric and ceramic accessory.
Including classical, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Asian and middle-Eastern, in addition to European styles from middle ages times through the 19th century, this collection of cultures and esthetics provides a main recommendation for artists, historians, designers and patternmakers, and anybody took part in ornamental style and effect.