The table and chairs are almost Medieval in their simplicity, with flattened ornamentation and rough-hewn lines.
Even the ornamentation piano, strings, densely arranged vocal harmonies signifies a work of stony seriousness.
The knowledge, skills, diversity, ornamentation and ceremonies involved provide Kyrgyz people with a sense of identity and continuity.
Surfaces adorned with fancy moldings and other ornamentation were replaced with glass walls.
It did not mean playing a harpsichord strung with modern steel, or fussy ornamentation as a piece was played.
And as ornamentation grew more restrained in the later 1820s, Phyfe concentrated on the glories of large expanses of matched veneers.
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Some even took the phrase to mean that all ornamentation was redundant.
The Bauhaus school, led by German architect Walter Gropius from 1919, worked to do away with the ornamentation and pretenses of bourgeois society.
The Khmer people have continued using this artistic legacy for the ornamentation of everyday objects, houses, monuments, in addition to public and religious buildings.
The cool Neoclassical style replaced arbitrary ornamentation with allegedly timeless proportions.
Stripping away the often elaborate ornamentation of the architectural styles popular before World War I, it was a conscious effort to capture the spirit of modernity.
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Knowledge, skills, diversity, the semantics of ornamentation, and the ceremonies of creating carpets are all important cultural components, providing Kyrgyz people with a sense of identity and continuity.
Or the Guildford (guildfordarms.com), with its riot of gilded ornamentation.
Tadashi Shoji took his guests on journey to the Silk Road, opening his show with a dress that borrowed its color and ornamentation from blue and white Ming dynasty vases.
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To answer that, one would have to probe the very essence of reality television, which seems to be entering its Baroque period, ornamentation and excess having caused the sideshow to outgrow the circus.
Some echo the extravagance of the setting, such as his twisted bronze figures playfully referencing 19th-century sculpture, which provide an aesthetic continuum with the gold brocade curtains, flocked wallpaper and gilded ornamentation that decorate the apartments.
Handel himself was receptive to singers and instrumentalists adding their own ornamentation and improvisation, and Mozart offered his own updated version of "Messiah, " so this concept didn't seem completely off the wall to me.
This is why Apple is in the perverse position of arguing that design elements which make good smartphones so useful are not functional at all, and merely decorative ornamentation: if it admitted these features were actually useful, it would forfeit its design protection.
They are the ornamentation motifs of flower, vine, flame, lotus petals, bamboo-shoot or water-buffalo teeth, used to decorate objects and architectural elements throughout Cambodia, and people have long drawn these motifs from the environment and social life - from the Angkorian period to today.
Mr. GRAY: Well, it's more just to incorporate the world of production completely and utterly, to surrender the music to it, in the faith that you will be able to cling on to the sort of integrity of the music, in spite all the sort of gilding and ornamentation.
The Noor collection, unveiled for the event held during the first week of June, is a line of art-deco style jewels inspired by the sensual transparency of vintage lace, the play of light through its delicate pattern, and the intricate ornamentation of the mosaic and arabesque patterns in Byzantine architecture.
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