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William Morris-style decorative title card lettered with the heading 'Who Was Walter Crane?', set within an ornate botanical border.

Walter Crane (1845-1915) was an English artist, book illustrator, designer, socialist activist, and theorist of design, a leading figure in the British Arts and Crafts Movement. Crane was born in...

Walter Crane (1845-1915) was an English artist, book illustrator, designer, socialist activist, and theorist of design, a leading figure in the British Arts and Crafts Movement. Crane was born in...

William Morris-style decorative title card lettered with the heading 'Who Was C.F.A. Voysey?', set within an ornate botanical border.

Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857-1941) was an English architect and designer, one of the leading figures of the English Arts and Crafts Movement and one of the founders of modern...

Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857-1941) was an English architect and designer, one of the leading figures of the English Arts and Crafts Movement and one of the founders of modern...

Interior of the Palais Garnier Paris Opera showing the Baroque Revival grand staircase with gilt decoration

The Baroque Revival (or Neo-Baroque) is a late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century movement that brought back the elaborate ornamentation, lavish decoration, theatricality, opulence, and sheer grandeur of the original Baroque period (the...

The Baroque Revival (or Neo-Baroque) is a late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century movement that brought back the elaborate ornamentation, lavish decoration, theatricality, opulence, and sheer grandeur of the original Baroque period (the...

Decorative William Morris-style title card for the article “What Is A Harlequin Pattern?”, with the heading lettered inside an ornate botanical border.

The harlequin pattern is the diamond one: rows of rhombus shapes, elongated squares turned to sit on a point, in two or more contrasting colors, locked edge to edge. The...

The harlequin pattern is the diamond one: rows of rhombus shapes, elongated squares turned to sit on a point, in two or more contrasting colors, locked edge to edge. The...

Decorative William Morris-style title card for the article “What Is Fleur-de-Lis As A Decorative Motif?”, with the heading lettered inside an ornate botanical border.

The fleur-de-lis, also spelled fleur-de-lys and French for "flower of the lily," is a stylized lily or iris: three petals bound together at the base by a horizontal band. It...

The fleur-de-lis, also spelled fleur-de-lys and French for "flower of the lily," is a stylized lily or iris: three petals bound together at the base by a horizontal band. It...

Decorative William Morris-style title card for the article “What Is An Ogee Pattern?”, with the heading lettered inside an ornate botanical border.

An ogee starts from one simple idea: two opposing arcs, one concave and one convex, meeting at a single point. Stack rows of that S-shaped curve and you have the...

An ogee starts from one simple idea: two opposing arcs, one concave and one convex, meeting at a single point. Stack rows of that S-shaped curve and you have the...