Owen Jones (architect)

Owen Jones (* February 15, 1809 in London, † April 19, 1874 in London ) was an English architect and designer.

Life

Owen Jones was born on February 15, 1809 as the son of his eponymous father, a wealthy fur trader and archaeologist, in London. After a six- year training in the architectural firm of Lewis Vuillamy he undertook in 1832 an extended trip to the Orient. In Greece, he met the young French architect Jules Goury, with whom he traveled to Egypt, Turkey and Spain. Together they create a rich architectural survey of the Alhambra in Granada, Jones completes after Gourys early death from cholera in 1834 alone, from 1842 to 1845 in London, published in two volumes (Plans, Elevations and Details of the Alhambra), the.

For the Great Exhibition of 1851 ( Great Exhibition ), he was described as " Superintendent of the works of the Exhibition " committed to the Crystal Palace, also in the reconstruction of the Crystal Palace in 1853 in Sydenham, he was responsible for its design. Combined with the work on this building, he made friends with Matthew Digby Wyatt.

In 1856 he published his influential work " The Grammar of Ornament ," in which he set up " common principles for the arrangement of form and color in architecture and the decorative arts ," by 100 color plates in chromolithography with ornaments from all eras and cultures were illustrated. Although he turned in the preface to the thoughtless copying of ornaments, his work was in great demand as a template for the stencil painting. On the other hand, it has also influenced William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement and thus the renewal of Kundsthandwerks in England.

Owen Jones died on 19 April 1874 in London.

Its importance lies not in its completed buildings, but in his writings on the Alhambra and the grammar of ornament that had a major influence on the Polychromiestreit.

Works

  • Plan, elevation, sections, and details of the Alhambra, from drawings taken on the spot in 1834 by Jules Goury, and in 1834 and 1837 by Owen Jones. Vol 1 Publisher: Owen Jones, London 1842 Internet Archive; Vol 2 London 1845 Internet Archive
  • Designs for Mosaic and Tesselated Pavements, London ( 1842)
  • Polychromatic Ornament of Italy, London ( 1845)
  • An Attempt to Define the Principles Which Regulate the Employment of Color in Decorative Arts, London ( 1852)
  • Handbook to the Alhambra Court (1854 )
  • Grammar of Ornament ( Grammar of the ornaments), London (1856, expanded 1868) Publisher: . Bernard Quaritch London, 1868 German edition: Publisher: GLB Parkland Vlgsges.Mbh ( August 1997) ISBN 978-3-8805-9828-7
  • Grammar of Ornament, illustrirt with patterns of the different kinds of style of the ornaments in one hundred and twelve plates, London ( 1856)
  • One Thousand and One Initial Letters, London ( 1864)
  • Seven Hundred and Two Monograms, London ( 1864)
  • Examples of Chinese ornament selected from objects in the South Kensington Museum and other collections. Publisher: S. & T. Gilbert London, 1867
Integrated Authority File
628660
de