Architecture and democracy
Architecture and Democracy is a 1918 New York book on architecture and ornament by Claude Fayette Bragdon, written for a general readership of architects and designers interested in American design. The pictures are black-and-white line drawings of panelled doors and coffered ceilings, a geometric magic-square ornament diagram, and a rotated sketch of a Gothic-style building beside a river. A designer might take from them the repeating geometric grid, the rosette-centred panel pattern, and the stylised scrollwork that Bragdon studied as decoration.
