Over three thousand drawings illustrate the ornamented styles that have been produced throughout the world since prehistoric times

Hundreds of beautiful copyright-free line illustrations of intricately carved furniture trimmings. Delicate floral wreaths, scrolls, more.

This text is a wide-ranging consideration of the cultural and symbolic significance of ornament, its rejection by modernism and its subsequent reinvention. Trilling explains how ornament works, why it has to be explained and why it matters.

This is a complete reprinting of one of Beunat's later and more complete catalogs, showing and again making available over 900 individual ornaments and designs. There are many repeatable linear patterns, both horizontal and vertical, for frames, friezes, dividers, furniture decoration, figures and scenes based on mythological and biblical motives, plus many more forms.

Largest collection of decorated artifacts, all in line; prehistoric, Egyptian, Islamic, Baroque, Victorian, other areas, times. 3,700 illustrations.