{"id":27867,"date":"2025-02-12T16:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=27867"},"modified":"2025-02-12T16:21:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T16:21:38","slug":"suggestions-in-design-by-john-leighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2025\/02\/12\/suggestions-in-design-by-john-leighton\/","title":{"rendered":"Suggestions in Design by John Leighton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Among the new book arrivals at the Internet Archive is this study of global design and ornamentation, with art by John Leighton and text (or “descriptive and historical letterpress”) by James K. Colling. Suggestions in Design<\/em> was published in 1880, with the pictorial matter having been available for many years as part of Dover Publications’ Pictorial Archive series. I don’t have a copy of the reprint, however, so this was a useful find. Leighton’s illustrations are black-and-white throughout, and all separated from each other, which is what you want if you’re looking for a design you may use yourself. The illustrations are also carefully done, something you can’t always say about the smaller books of this type.<\/p>\n

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The Victorian era is where design history begins. Suggestions in Design<\/em> follows the structure of Owen Jones’ landmark study, The Grammar of Ornament<\/a><\/em>, ranging across the world and through the ages to demonstrate the evolution of decoration and sculptural form. Leighton ends the book with several pages of his own designs. Browse it here<\/a> or download it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Moderne Malereien, 1903<\/a>
\n\u2022 Das Thier in der Decorativen Kunst<\/a>
\n\u2022 Dolmetsch\u2019s Ornamentenschatz<\/a>
\n\u2022 Racinet\u2019s Polychromatic Ornament<\/a>
\n\u2022 Buchschmuck und Fl\u00e4chenmuster by Max Benirschke<\/a>
\n\u2022 Christopher Dresser\u2019s Studies in Design<\/a>
\n\u2022 Christopher Dresser\u2019s Art of Decorative Design<\/a>
\n\u2022 Kunstgewerbliche Schmuckformen f\u00fcr die Fl\u00e4che<\/a>
\n\u2022 Album de la d\u00e9coration<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Grammar of Ornament revisited<\/a>
\n\u2022 Dekorative Vorbilder<\/a>
\n\u2022 Combinaisons Ornementales<\/a>
\n\u2022 Charles J Strong\u2019s Book of Designs<\/a>
\n\u2022 Styles of Ornament<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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