It has graffiti on it and an original golden patina has gone black in places.
Those hits give the patina of success that rubs off on every participant in the market place.
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The steel 'weathers' to form a rust-like patina when exposed to the air.
To fake an original patina, restorers sometimes paint a chair with a mix of automotive paint and baby powder, then torch it.
Moreover, virtually all securitizations took place in NY because its stricter laws provided a patina of security for the securities.
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Once they have acquired a beautiful patina, he will fish them out and let us all share in the magic.
He began to see their dilapidation as an advantage: Anything he painted on them inherited the patina of past centuries.
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Afterwards, I warmed myself with the locally made contents of a flask while my feet turned a troubling patina of blue.
" Patina Miller, best actress in a musical nominee for "Pippin.
Conferences, at least, bear the patina of educational merit and an opportunity to curry favor with the officials who help pick legal counsel.
The omnipresent knotty wood paneling gleams with a golden patina, and the lobby is lit with twig-shaped sconces and three enormous antler chandeliers.
Thanks to its beautiful styling and premium materials, the MX-1 develops a stunning patina impressing a history on the camera with each use.
Gibeon meteorites that fell in Namibia thousands of years ago are smoother, refined by millennia of terrestrial erosion and often enhanced with a deep brown patina.
He believes it strips all the interest out of objects and, in the case of paintings and sculpture, robs them of the dignity of a dark patina.
Patina Miller, last on Broadway as the heroine of "Sister Act, " stepped into the Ben Vereen role of Leading Player in "Pippin" and earned her second straight nomination.
"The patina of an antique is preferable to perfection, "he explains.
New evidence has emerged which raises the question of whether Iran is engaging in a giant insurance fraud, replacing private insurance with a patina of coverage shrouded in mystery.
When asked about our favourite places, we mostly come up with places rich in history - pre-automobile cities with charm and the texture, patina, and sense of memory bestowed by time.
The patina of a worn brown-leather soccer ball in one photo inspired the leather-wrapped door handles on the upcoming Mini Paceman, a three-door crossover coupe that goes into production next year.
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It all adds to the patina of the place.
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This lent a gentler patina to the game, according to James McManus, who teaches a course on the literature and science of poker at the Art Institute of Chicago (nice job, that).
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For Gazprom to succeed it needs to maintain a patina of respectability and fairness, something that will quickly become impossible if its persists in pricing its gas in such a completely arbitrary and haphazard manner.
Just beyond his tattered wood desk, a vintage Miami cruiser hangs from one of his patent-pending pedal hooks - the perfectly rusted patina on the low-riding frame is the closest thing to art on the walls.
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Their Cotswolds foundry, called Pangolin (after the scaled African anteater with a bronzy patina) has worked closely with some of Britain's leading sculptors and conceptual artists including Phillip King, Jon Buck, Ann Christopher, Damien Hirst and the late Angus Fairhurst.
Freeman's (Freeman Alley, off Rivington St), a perennially popular Lower East Side restaurant, and Brooklyn's pioneering Moto (394 Broadway, Williamsburg), were early adopters of the Old New York look, and the designers of each have kept up their patina-led practice.
Growing up in Maryland, just south of the Mason Dixon Line, I often let my wanderlust and imagination drift up the coast to a more perfect place of beautiful coastline, living history and a cultural patina that seemed a caste above my mid-Atlantic surroundings.
Directors in the Aston Martin heritage program had searched extensively to find the perfect vehicle for the movie, and they transformed the one they found from green with a beige interior into a Silver-Birch painted car with black trim distressed to add the patina of age.
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The latter will consist of three free-standing units a square glass pavilion (as a workroom for the sculptor's poet wife), a tall triangle of recycled steel (forming the sculptor's studio) and an arc-shaped monolith of untreated wood, whose patina will turn grey with age (for the couple's house).
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