Architect and designer, London
Owen Jones
The Victorian designer who collected the world’s ornament in one book.
On Picturepops™ cards · 5
The life
1809–1874Born London, England
Owen Jones was a London architect and designer who helped decorate the Great Exhibition of 1851. His Grammar of Ornament (1856) gathered patterns from across the world and history in colour plates, and his Examples of Chinese Ornament (1867) did the same for Chinese porcelain and enamel. Our cards with peaches, chrysanthemums and blue flower scrolls come from his plates.