Assignment 3

“Construction should be decorated. Decoration should never be
purposely constructed.”

When Owen Jones argued this in 1856 he ment that when you a decorating things the decoration should have a purpose in the design such as holding the weight of the stucture not to just be on the design just becuase it looks nice. I agree with Jones because when looking at his designs they look solid and true to what the desgin is trying to be but when I look at some other designs that do not follow what Owen Jones said the desgin look over decrated and over the top such as this table which was desgined in the Rococo time period.

 

The legs have alot of decoration and dont serve any perpose to the structure of the table. The table is ‘decoration constructed’. But if we look and one of Owen Jones's designs it dosent look over decorated and it still looks good and this table is ‘construction decorated’.