Friday, again, already. VERY busy with special dinner preparations (if desired, follow the progress on my blog dedicated to Milan: http://mymilanitaly.blogspot.com/2011/04/photoless-friday-11-preparations-and.html).
Can't linger, but couldn't turn up the opportunity to share another gem from Owen Jones with you, either. This one is his "Proposition 9":...More......
"PROPOSITION 9: As in every perfect work of Architecture a true proportion will be found to reign between all the members which compose it, so throughout the Decorative Arts every assemblage of forms should be arranged on certain definite proportions; the whole and each particular member should be a multiple of some simple unit. Those proportions will be the most beautiful which it will be most difficult for the eye to detect. Thus the proportion of a double square, or 4 to 8, will be less beautiful than the more subtle ration of 5 to 8; 3 to 6; than 3 to 7; 3 to 9; 3 to 4; than 3 to 5."
Hey, mathematicians out there...is he talking about the Golden Mean (approximately 2/3 to the whole)?
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