1. Patrick Mauries, Fornasetti; Designer of Dreams (London: Thames and Hudson, 1992).
  2. Joanna Symonds, Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects: C. F. A. Voysey (London: D. C. Heath, 1976), fig. 98.
  3. Stuart Durant, C. F. A. Voysey (London: Academy Editions, 1992), p. 7.
  4. Voysey quoted in Duncan Simpson, C. F. A. Voysey: An Architect of Individuality (London: Lund Humphries, 1979), p. 120.
  5. Simpson, C. F. A. Voysey p. 4.
  6. Durant, C. F. A. Voysey.
  7. In particular I am thinking of Semper's "The Textile Art," The Four Elements of Architecture trans. Harry Francis Mallgrave and Wolfgang Herrmann (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
  8. "The sneer 'it looks like a wedding-cake' is not on record in early civilizations. For why should not the wedding-cake celebrate the great occasion with all the frills and artifice of which the confectioner is capable?" E. H. Gombrich, The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of the Decorative Arts (London: Phaidon, 1984), p. 17.
  9. "Although The House That Jack Built first appeared in print in 1755, the rhyme is probably very old. James O. Halliwell thought that the reference to 'the priest all shaven and shorn' attested to its antiquity. There are similar rhymes in many European languages, and some scholars think that the rhyme stems from a Hebrew chant first printed in 1590." William S. Baring-Gould and Ceil Baring-Gould, The Annotated Mother Goose (New York: Bramhall House, 1962), p. 43.
  10. Adolf Loos quoted, C. F. A. Voysey p. 194.
  11. David Cairns and Shaun Richards, Writing Ireland: Colonialism, Nationalism and Culture (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988), p. 8.
  12. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (New York: Pantheon Books, 1971), p. 15.
  13. Foucault, The Order of Things p. 16.
  14. For a useful bibliography of these see Stuart Durant's Ornament, from the Industrial Revolution to Today (Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press, 1986).
  15. Gombrich, The Sense of Order p. 51.
  16. Cairns and Richards, Writing Ireland p. 8.
  17. "Female Head from New Zealand, in the Museum, Chester," Owen Jones, The Grammar of Ornament (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1910), p. 14.