Pattern, Ornament, and Decoration

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Hana Shishū (花詩集) | Flower Poetry Collection

Kawarazaki Kōdō, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

Classical patterns for dyeing. Volumes : color illustrations ; 31 cm. Folding books, Acordion style binding.

CONTENTS: 1-3. Mon'yō no maki -- 4. Hamon no maki -- 5. Mizu no maki -- 6. Unka no maki -- 7. Shikishi no maki

Library has no. 5 only. Gift of the Estate of Sol P. Kaufman. Volume is an accordion style fold, illustrated endpapers on the front board. Each page spread contains 6 or more stenciled blocks of patterns designs. Volume number from applied strip on front cover, hand calligraphed in Japanese.
Art Forms in Nature, second series: examples from the plant world photographed direct from nature

Karl Blossfeldt, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

xiii pages, 120 leaves of plates : chiefly illustration. Englehart C. Ostby Fund.
Abstract Pattern Portfolio

Mizuki Heitaro, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

1 sheet of text, 32 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 40 cm. In half-cloth portfolio. Eight plates are color stencilled, twenty-four are color printed (color lithography). The portfolio comprises 99 designs, four of which are full page. Color plate mounted on portfolio cover. Mizuki develops his patterns from a mathematical starting point, devising combinations of basic geometric shapes from equations. His work is influenced by the European Art Deco aesthetic, most notably drawing from M. P. Verneuil's portfolio, Kaleidoscope - Ornements Abstraits (Paris 1926). All text in Japanese.
Etude de la mer : faune et flore de la manche et de l'océan V. 1

Mathurin Méheut and Maurice Pillard Verneuil

Volume 1 of 2 : illus. (some color) ; 37 cm. Edition: Nouv. éd. Includes index. Gift of Edwin C. Parker.
Etude de la mer : faune et flore de la manche et de l'océan V. 2

Mathurin Méheut and Maurice Pillard Verneuil

Volume 2 of 2 : illus. (some color) ; 37 cm. Edition: Nouv. éd. Includes index. Gift of Edwin C. Parker.
Le Decoration Arabe… : extraits du grand ouvrage L'art arabe de Prisse d'Avesnes / choisis, classés et arrangés par les éditeurs.

Prisse d'Avesnes, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

Oversize. 2 pages, ℓ., 4 pages : 110 leaves of plates (some color, double) ; 40 cm. Each double plate is numbered as two. Covers 12th to 18th centuries, including wall decorations, ceilings, mosaics, tiles, woodwork, stained glass, fabrics, rugs, bindings, crockery, and miscellaneous ornaments. Lithography.

From the Gorham Design Library. Gift of Lenox Inc. Copy rebound by Hope Bindery, marbled paper over boards, leather spine with title & decorations in gold stamp.