Owen Jones — Greek Ornament | Grammar of Ornament Design Print

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Owen Jones — Greek Ornament | Grammar of Ornament Design PrintOwen Jones (18091874) was a Welsh architect and designer whose Grammar of Ornament (1856) 112 chromolithographic plates documenting decorative traditions from ancient Egypt to the Renaissance became the single most influential design reference book of the 19th century. Superintendent of Works for the Great Exhibition of 1851 and principal decorator of the Crystal Palace, he shaped the visual culture of the Victorian age. His systematic documentation

in the manner of the Chinese literati

Carlos Schwabe (1866–1926) was a German-Swiss Symbolist painter and illustrator who became one of the defining visual voices of the Rose+Croix movement — creating the iconic poster for the first Salon de la Rose+Croix in 1892 and producing illustrations for Maeterlinck

graphic authority

Willow Bough

the group that championed Impressionism in the United States

These typographic prints render his most beloved lines with the clarity and beauty they deserve

they represent the golden age of scientific illustration

suffused with natural light — are now recognised as among the most beautiful works of the Neo-Impressionist movement

his plunging perspectives and flat decorative planes

The panoramic landscape

crows — combine the luminous depth of lacquer surfaces with a painterly spontaneity that no Western medium can quite reproduce

perfectly observed — remain among the most collectible of all Shin Hanga prints and are held in major museum collections worldwide

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