melethallia algae fine art print ernst haeckel linocutprint Few natural forms feel as

Few natural forms feel as effortlessly decorative as the sea star

It is a perennial favourite as a gift

License: Public domain

1836 – September 29

"La Plante et ses Applications Ornementales" by Maurice Pillard Verneuil (1869–1942) - French artist and decorator in the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movement - is about plants and their decorative applications (24 sets with 3 motifs each)

melethallia algae fine art print ernst haeckel linocutprint Few natural forms feel asThis plate turns the humblest of organisms colonial algae into a study of pure, repeating pattern. Ernst Haeckel arranged these microscopic plant forms into rosettes, networks and clusters of soft green and gold, the kind of natural geometry that feels almost like wallpaper or textile design rather than a page from a science book. It is one of the 100 lithographs in Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), Haeckel's hugely influential series. A