The "iron lace" that graces the businesses, homes, squares, and cemeteries of Mobile, Alabama, is as vital a part of that southern port city as it is of New Orl

Finally, the brilliant pencil execution of ornament in his old age became a surrogate for the great architectural projects realized earlier." "David Van Zanten'

Embellishment is a basic human need. Why was it banished from modern architecture?

'Urban Design: Ornament and Decoration' focuses on decorating the city and how ornament has been used to bring delight to the urban scene. The authors show how

Bonnie Shaster, fourteen and recently orphaned, arrives at her cousin Audra's Seattle boarding house in 1918 and struggles to find her place among a disorderly