"Ornaments are omnipresent - they can be found on buildings, fabrics, jewelry, tiles, ceramics and wallpaper. Scorned at the beginning of the modern age, ornament has long since returned to architecture and influences design drafts as much as tattoo motifs. In New Grammar of Ornament, Thomas Weil compares current ornamental objects with the results of archaeological research on ornamental artifacts and concludes that there is an anthropological constant. From the recurring arrangements of stripes, rectangles, triangles and dots and the frequency of the forms of floral ornaments used, he derives a new "grammar of ornament." More than 160 years after Owen Jones' influential publication, New Grammar of Ornament is a new standard work. It categorizes the variety of ornamental forms used worldwide and for the first time places them in a major art and cultural-historical context"--Provided by publisher

• Thomas Weil
• Manuel Will
• Heinz Sch??tz
• Thomas Weil Preface: The New Grammar of Ornament and the geometric ornament as art's original language/ The archaeology and origins of ornaments: a deep-time perspective / Decorum. Ornament. Pattern. Art. / Minimal. Minimal: Free ; with dots ; with lines ; with planes
• Minimal: striped ; with dots ; with lines ; with planes
• Minimal: Rectangular ; with dots ; with lines ; with planes
• Minimal: Triangular ; with dots ; with lines ; with planes
• Geometric. Geometric: Free ; with dots, lines, planes
• Geometric: Striped ; with dots, lines, planes
• Geometric: Rectangular ; with dots ; with lines ; with planes
• Geometric: Triangular ; with dots ; with lines ; with planes
• Floral. Flora: Suns ; with 8 lobes ; with 6 lobes ; with 5 loves ; with 4 lobes ; with 3 lobes
• Floral: Plants ; with fruits and flowers ; with leaves and branches
• Flora: Archetype ; with sine waves ; with ovals ; with spirals ; with miscellaneous
• Floral: Earth ; with air, fire and earth
• Epilogue /