# Principles of decorative design

Author: Dresser, Christopher, 1834-1904

Genre: Category: Art

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39749

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Principles+of+decorative+design+Dresser&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There are many handicrafts in which a knowledge of the true principles of ornamentation is almost essential to success, and there are few in which a knowledge of decorative laws cannot be utilised. The man who can form a bowl or a vase well is an artist, and so is the man who can make a beautiful chair or table. These are truths; but the converse of these facts is also true; for if a man be not an artist he cannot form an elegant bowl, nor make a beautiful chair.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/principles-of-decorative-design-39749/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/principles-of-decorative-design-39749/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/principles-of-decorative-design-39749/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/principles-of-decorative-design-39749/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/principles-of-decorative-design-39749/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/principles-of-decorative-design-39749/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/principles-of-decorative-design-39749/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/principles-of-decorative-design-39749/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/principles-of-decorative-design-39749/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/principles-of-decorative-design-39749/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I. PAGE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/principles-of-decorative-design-39749/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/principles-of-decorative-design-39749/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/principles-of-decorative-design-39749/chapters/3/index.md)