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See also:- JONES
- JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
- JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
- JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
- JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
- JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
- JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
- JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
- JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
- JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
- JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
- JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
- JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
- JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
- JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
- JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)
JONES, See also:OWEN (1809-1874) , See also:British architect and See also:art decorator,son of Owen Jones, a Welsh See also:antiquary, was See also:born in See also:London. After an See also:apprenticeship of six years in an architect's See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, he travelled for four years in See also:Italy, See also:Greece, See also:Turkey, See also:Egypt and See also:Spain, making a See also:special study of the See also:Alhambra. On his return to See also:England in 1836 he busied himself in his professional See also:work. His forte was interior decoration, for which his See also:formula was: " See also:Form without See also:colour is like a See also:body without a soul." He was one of the superintendents of See also:works for the See also:Exhibition of 1851 and was responsible for the See also:general decoration of the Crystal See also:Palace at See also:Sydenham. Along with See also:Digby See also:Wyatt, Jones collected the casts of works of art with which the palace was filled. He died in London on the 19th of See also:April 1874.
Owen Jones was described in the Builder for 1874 as " the most potent apostle of colour that architectural England has had in these days." His range of activity is to be traced in his works: Plans, Elevations and Details of the Alhambra (1835-1845), in which he was assisted by MM. Goury and Gayangos; Designs for See also:Mosaic and Tesselated Pavements (1842) ; Polychromatic See also:Ornament of Italy (1845) ;
An See also:Attempt to Define the Principles which regulate the Employment of Colour in Decorative Arts (1852); Handbook to the Alhambra See also:Court (1854); See also:Grammar of Ornament (1856), a very important work; One Thousand and One Initial Letters (1864); Seven See also:Hundred and Two Monograms (1864) ; and Examples of See also:Chinese Ornament (1867).
End of Article: JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
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