Forbes

A Stunning New Drawing Center Exhibit Shows That Architectural Ornamentation Was The Original Open-Source Software

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. At the height of the Great Depression, the Federal Art ...
Forbes

Is Ornament A Crime? These Designers Are Challenging The Modernist Censure Of Ornamentalism With Unrepentantly Decorative Furnishings

For much of the previous century, ornamentation went into hiding. Modernist architects purged their buildings of naturalistic flourishes, and designers pruned all references to foliage from their ...
Business Wire

New White Paper from Mary Cook Associates Explores the Power of Ornamentation in Interior Design

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Chicago-based Mary Cook Associates (MCA), a national, award-winning commercial interior design firm, today published a white paper entitled “Mastering the Art of ...
Hyperallergic

Searching for a More Inclusive History of Ornament

What do tattoos, wallpaper, graffiti, and cake decorations have in common? They can all be considered forms of ornament, detailed embellishments that have added complexity and beauty to surfaces for ...
LancasterOnline

Ornamentation, arches define Moorish Revival, Venetian Renaissance in Lancaster [architecture column]

Last month, we explored Chateauesque, one of several revival styles popular during the late 19th century. Next up are Moorish Revival and Venetian Renaissance. Popular between 1880 and 1910, these ...
archpaper

"Ornament is crime" is crime: In London, the debate over architectural ornamentation settled over beer and shot of vodka

There are six clear reasons why Turncoats, a new architectural debating format, is continuing to ruffle more than just a few feathers in Hoxton, East London. 1) It is free. 2) You are given a bottle ...