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Updated: June 2, 2025
To us, out here, they suggest artistic ceramic possibilities for architectural purposes of which we have taken little advantage. Considering the fact that we have quantities of good clay and that so much original good decorative design is lying idle, this inactivity in architectural ceramics in California is distressing.
Then, as he gains experience, he may gradually enrich his pattern by the addition of the element of light and shade, should he so decide. Now as to certain general considerations in relation to the appropriate and logical use of ceramics in the construction and adornment of buildings, exterior and interior.
We found evidences that both Honanki and Palatki had been occupied by Apache Mohave people for longer or shorter periods of time, and some of the specimens were probably left there by these inhabitants. The ancient pottery found in the rooms, although fragmentary, is sufficiently complete to render a comparison with known ceramics from the Verde ruins.
On vertical surfaces such protection is not necessary; the use of ceramics should therefore be confined for the most part to such surfaces: for friezes, panels, door and window architraves, and the like.
Our craftsmen and manufacturers of face-brick, terra-cotta, and colored tile, after much costly experimentation, have succeeded in producing ceramics of a high order of excellence and intrinsic beauty; they can do practically anything demanded of them; but from that quarter where they should reap the greatest commercial advantage the field of architecture there is all too little demand.
She went to Minneapolis, to scamper through department stores and small Tenth Street shops devoted to ceramics and high thought. She had to ship her treasures, but she wanted to bring them back in her arms.
He cannot be expected to have on his staff a specialist in ceramics, nor can he, with all his manifold activities, be expected to become such a specialist himself.
As one of the oldest elements in the decoration of Tusayan ceramics, figures of birds have in many instances become highly conventionalized; so much so, in fact, that their avian form has been lost, and it is one of the most instructive problems in the study of Hopi decoration to trace the modifications of these designs from the realistic to the more conventionalized.
Lagarge, his companion a thin, cadaverous-looking man with a big head and the general air of having been carved out of an old root a great expert in ceramics listening intently, bobbing his head in toy-mandarin fashion whenever one of Holker's iconoclasms cleared the air. "Suppose they did pay thirty thousand dollars for it," Holker insisted, slapping his knee with his outspread palm.
That is, if you don't let New York turn your head; and if you'd use your ability on a real job, like helping Ray, or teaching yes, or really sticking to your ceramics or dancing, and leave the temperament business to those who can get away with it. No, wait.
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