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パルテール（刺繍花壇） / 17th century– / Layout / Garden Styles
The embroidered bed: box hedging stitching arabesques into the ground, designed to be read from the floors above — the ground itself turned into ornament, gardening as graphic design.
Box arabesques / Gravel and turf as ground colors / Made for the view from above / Symmetrical development
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- broderie patterns / the Mollet dynasty / Victorian carpet bedding