 | The Grammar of Ornament: A Visual Reference of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts - The complete and unabridged full-color edition Owen Jones (1809-74) was an English-born Welsh architect and one of the most important design theorists of the nineteenth century. He taught applied arts at the South Kensington School of Design in the 1850s and served as Superintendent of Works at the Great Exhibition of 1851. He was a key figure in the founding of the South Kensington Museum, which later became the Victoria and Albert Museum. |
