ABSTRACT
During the later part of the century, the influence of Owen Jones’s Grammar of Ornament and later texts, including Eastlake’s Hints on Household Taste and Spofford’s Art Decoration, all helped to promote Islamic/Moorish-influenced designs in interior decoration. In England the application fretwork screens and arches had been promoted by Liberty and Co. In one of her books, Mrs Panton explained to her readers how … by the aid of carefully planned woodwork and by using arches on the plan of the Moorish fretwork first introduced by Liberty, a square room can be made picturesque, and a long narrow passage pleasant to contemplate, by simply putting up a series of slight arches, or else by curtaining off portions of it by aid of simple wooden partitions.
