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Originality Construction Decoration: Present day trends in the design of houses and gardens are toward simplification. Functionalism is considered good. So is originality construction decoration, provided it is not too extreme. originality construction Decoration that comes from strain and striving for the unusual defeats its purpose. It lacks restraint. Superficial Decoration has been discarded. Along with the gingerbread and curlicues of late nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture have gone geometrical flower beds, tortuous paths, elaborate fountains, complicated rustic work, gazing globes and other features that once cluttered gardens. The best gardens of today are lovely and
livable.
OSLO, called Christiania during the Danish centuries, has been going strong for 900 years but today it is one of Europe's youngest capitals in spirit. Among its famous sights are three of very special significance, the splendid new Town Hall, vying in originality construction Decoration of construction and Decoration with that of Stockholm; the Vigeland statuary in Frogner Park; and the ensemble of Bygdfiy (the Norwegian 0 is pronounced like 6), a suburban peninsula featuring an Outdoor Museum of Norway (old houses, an old church, Viking ships showing how the fearless Norse adventurers rowed the known and unknown seas a thousand years ago).
For the making of statues of gods and heroes the Hellenistic tradition continued, though weakened in vigor and originality construction Decoration by the Roman collectors' preference for older works, or even copies of them, to any new work showing great originality construction decoration. In the field of sculpture in relief, for which the demand was great, the situation was not so static, though one cannot discern a clear line of development. |
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