A study of the artist's way of working in the various handicrafts and arts of design (1905)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 243
W It OUGH T IRON The making of " grilles " is practised still in the old way ; a revival of wrought-iron work having been brought about in the middle of the nineteenth century, after a hundred years of decline and in- difference. The essential character of desien in … Fig. 6i. Steel keys, French, seventeenth century these combinations of bars and strips is almost unique in art as being linear — a matter of thin strips of shade or of light (as the grille is seen against a lighter or darker ground) contrasting with somewhat larger surfaces interposed between them.…
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