Floral With Birds Lumbar Cushion

Detail from a design by Anton Seder. He explained the principle of decorative painting that he used to decorate a given room with relatively simple means: "Simple plants or interior motifs ... are used in finely tuned, mostly broken colours according to the basic rules of colour theory, to decorate the room as large as it may seem comfy . " As a taste of his time, Seder regarded such colour moods," reminiscent of the iridescence of peacock feathers or the iridescence of antique patinated glasses or the colourful, soap-bubble appearance of the Mexican noble opal. " He came to the realisation:" In the use of these subtle colours and elegant lines is the main charm of our modern decorative painting .... "And justified them with the words:" because these are almost always borrowed from nature forms and colours ... a similar charm to the eye of the beholder ben as nature itself. " Anton Seder had six years earlier published in the published in Berlin factory Naturalistic Decorationsmalereien its original knowledge of the decorative painting in arts and crafts colour drawings on multiple sheets.