THE TREASURY OF ORNAMENT

Ornamentenschatz, after H. Dolmetsch

In 1887 a Stuttgart architect named Heinrich Dolmetsch published a book meant to sit on a workbench, not a shelf. Then the trades that used it declined, and it became what it is in most libraries today: a beautiful object nobody builds from.

This edition exists to reverse that. Every motif is modeled in three dimensions as carved relief, with a rendering of the finished piece and a machine-ready file a CNC router, laser engraver or 3D printer can produce directly. Volume I — the Renaissance — holds ten plates and seventy-nine models.

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THE MODEL FILES

Every ornament in this volume is also a machine-ready file — an STL, an OBJ, a 16-bit heightmap and an SVG outline. This is the page the captions in the book point to.

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WHAT VOLUME I CONTAINS

Plate IByzantine and Romanesque: architecture and sculpture

Plate IIGothic: architecture, sculpture and ornament

Plate IIIItalian Renaissance: intarsia

Plate IVItalian Renaissance: etched ornament

Plate VItalian Renaissance: carved pilasters and friezes

Plate VIItalian Renaissance: carved ornament in marble and bronze

Plate VIIFrench Renaissance: carved ornament in stone and wood

Plate VIIIFrench and German Renaissance: cartouches and strapwork

Plate IXGerman Renaissance: carved ornament in stone

Plate XThe seventeenth century: carved ornament

THE SERIES

I · RENAISSANCEAvailable now

II · GREEK & ROMANIn preparation

III · GOTHICIn preparation

IV · BYZANTINEIn preparation

V · MOORISHIn preparation

VI · BAROQUEIn preparation