Ornamental Cornices

Ornamental CornicesIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the facades of many, if not most, residential and commercial buildings in Americas cities were crowned with sheet metal cornices. These offered certain practical advantages over stone or brick cornicesfor example, they were lighter and safer to installbut the easy workability of sheet metal also allowed for greater decorative possibilities. It was in the sheet metal cornice, in fact, that the

and even Gustav Klimt’s gold-drenched canvas The Kiss

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though often precarious

fantasy presents an impossible reality—a universe where dragons breathe fire

and on the landscape as well

Handmade in India is the first book to explore the entire spectrum of Indian crafts

published her herbal as a means of financial support after her husband landed in debtor’s prison

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Lange & Sohne

by Ann Rockefeller Roberts

like Soutine and Modigliani