Dresser, Christopher · London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 96
80 PRINCIPLES or DESIGIf. between the joists might have a nnming pattern, or better, a star, or diaper pattern, or it mig-ht have bands running in the opposite direction to the joists, so as, with them, to form scjuares, which squares mig-ht be filled with ornament. If, however, the ceiling is… … Fig. 55. almost any " setting out" of the surface may be employed, as Fig. 53; or a large centre ornament, as Figs. 54' and 55 ; or a rosette distributed over the entire surface, as Fig. 56. In any case it is not necessary or even desirable that the ornament be in relief upon the ceiling. Flatly…
Decoration and ornament
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