DECORATION

ORNAMENT IN ARCHITECTURE

By Louis Sullivan

Ornament, Sullivan suggests, must be inherent in the structure of modernity. And only America, a country not held back by its own history, can develop that new architecture in which rationalism and ornament fuse together.  Read more

HOUSE  DECORATION

By Oscar Wilde

People's desire for beautiful things is best met by honouring the handicraftsmen who make the "vessels of everyday use", argued Wilde on his tour of America in 1882. Objects made carefully by an honest workman increase in beauty. Read more