decorative design
Embellishment for beauty
Decorative design is ornamentation intended to enhance visual appeal rather than serve a functional purpose.
The term appears in art, architecture, and craft contexts: The building featured elaborate decorative design along the cornices.
It also names a field of study or professional practice focused on creating such ornamentation.
- BaroqueOrnate artistic period
- Art NouveauCurvilinear decorative movement, 1890s
- BauhausInfluential modernist design school
- folding screensHinged panels creating partitions
- Gothic RevivalArchitectural return to medieval forms
arabesque · damask · motif · Victorian · William Morris · acanthus · Rococo · ornate frame · filigree · chinoiserie · Minimalism · geometric pattern · Glass · ornament · carved · scroll · flourish · mosaic
- design IP
decorative designfunctional design
Aesthetic serving practical use
structural design · utilitarian design · engineering · industrial design · ergonomic design
decorative designminimalist design
Aesthetic of essential elements only
minimalism · functionalism · brutalism · industrial aesthetic · form follows function
decorative designstructural design
Planning load-bearing frameworks
structural element · load-bearing structure · structural elements · skeleton · framework