Fountain, in landscape architecture, an issue of water controlled or contained primarily for purposes of decoration, especially an artificially produced jet of water or the structure from which it rises.
If hipsters are supporting small businesses for the mere purpose of instagram decoration, what of it?
These items may vary slightly, depending on the purpose of the decorations.
The purpose of Christmas decorations in a church is to remind worshipers of the birth of Jesus.
Window, opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air; windows are often arranged also for the purposes of architectural decoration.
The ancient Romans were the first collectors of art, and saw no contradiction between holding a culture in high esteem as they did the Greeks—and plundering its treasures for purposes of interior decoration.
People want to be able to say, 'That is my Rauschenberg, and that is my early Warhol, and that is my latest Jeff Koons,' not 'That is my sculpture by an anonymous Roman.' " The ancient Romans were the first collectors of art, and saw no contradiction between holding a culture in high esteem — as they did the Greeks — and plundering its treasures for purposes of interior decoration.
Argiope employ many layers of aciniform silk to completely immobilize and envelop their prey (e.g. [ 3, 4]), and Argiope are also a model system for studying the purpose of aciniform-silk web decorations, known as stabilimenta, that have been implicated in predator avoidance, prey attraction, and web stability (for review see [ 5, 6]).
The scheme was designed to be temporary, nothing more than "a novel and intriguing method of decoration … with no other purpose in mind than that of giving the teashops themselves an interesting and homely appearance".
Such perfectly preserved leatherbound barricades are still available from antiquarian dealers - endless sets of Goethe, Cooper and Scott, their pages still uncut - and they retain their original purpose as wall decoration for illiterate toffs.
For practical purposes, history doesn't come into this except as a sort of decoration.
