Curves Growing from Structure

An Art Nouveau component that is both structure and decoration. A cast iron or wrought iron column rises from the ground, curves slightly in the middle, and at the ceiling, branches into three or four thinner limbs that extend in different directions and adhere to the ceiling as part of a beam; the cross-section at the branching point changes naturally. It resembles a simplified tree. Avoid: making the column and decoration two separate components, using vertical straight columns, making the branching angles perfectly symmetrical, adding decorative patterned plates to the column.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一根同時是結構與裝飾的新藝術構件。一支鑄鐵或鍛鐵的柱從地面升起,中段略微彎曲,到達天花時分岔成三四根較細的枝,向不同方向延伸並貼在天花上成為樑的一部分;分岔處的斷面自然地變化。它像一棵被簡化的樹。避免:把柱與裝飾做成兩個分開的構件、使用垂直筆直的柱、讓分岔的角度完全對稱、在柱上加貼裝飾性的花紋板。