Ornaments are omnipresent – they can be found on buildings, fabrics, jewelry, tiles, ceramics and wallpaper. Scorned at the beginning of the modern age, ornament has long since returned to architecture and influences design drafts as much as tattoo motifs.
In New Grammar of Ornament, Thomas Weil compares current ornamental objects with the results of archaeological research on ornamental artifacts and concludes that there is an anthropological constant. He categorizes the variety of ornamental forms used worldwide and places them in a major art and cultural-historical context. More than 160 years after Owen Jones's influential publication Grammar of Ornament, Weil derives a new grammar of ornament by differentiating minimal, geometric and floral ornaments in over four hundred colorful images.
Über die Autorin / über den Autor:Thomas Weil (born in 1944) studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich and focused early on interior design and design. Since 1974 he has worked on the subject of ornamentation, which he incorporated into numerous facades and walls as an artist. He gives national and international lectures and courses on ornamentation and is a lecturer on ornamentation at the Munich Academy of Design and Art.
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