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Personal Encounters with Decorative Objects
Editorial by John Fleming
THIS ISSUE OF ORNAMENTUM follows the technique of mosaic construction through the material history of the decorative arts in the production of objects....
Anniversary
ORNAMENTUM celebrates 10 years of publication in 2015 as it continues to record our delight in the pursuit and pleasure of discovering and promoting interest...
Sport and the Decorative Arts
Editorial: Botanical Art
Editorial: Utilities in the City
Cocktail Culture in a Postmodern World
Editorial by John Fleming
In this issue we touch upon a few of the physical avatars of alcohol and the decorative persuasions of advertising and practice in promoting its use...
Architecture and the Decorative
Editorial by John Fleming
Until the mid-19th century, architecture in the formal European tradition, as opposed to the vernacular, generally followed classical concepts of structure and style. Where structure was...
The Decorative View of Locomotion
Editorial by John Fleming
The “invention of the wheel, which doesn’t look at all like a leg” (Guillaume Apollinaire), sums up in a few words what is undoubtedly one of...
Alphabets as Ornament in the Making of Decorated Paper and Objects
Editorial by John Fleming and Marian Bradshaw
In this issue we choose among a multiplicity of examples in which the graphic and the decorative arts intersect, overlap and combine in...