Hints and tips:
...Bao, an extraordinarily successful chain of Taiwanese restaurants in London, has a lonely, unhappy-looking “salary man” on its merch....
...The museum has been closely involved in the suite’s decoration, not least in providing letters and drawings from its curator-certified “museum edition” of reproductions....
...The second woman, wearing a floral hat that matches the decoration around her cleavage, bends towards the seated woman as if trying to reason with or console her....
...on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré vie to outdo each other’s decorations and the whole city feels en fête....
...Because when you go to a dinner in a private house, you are close to a Caravaggio painting. And to be noticed, you need to be decorated.”...
...Savannah also has the kind of idiosyncratic stores that have been driven out of bigger cities by high rents....
...annually, as long as you store them well....
...Halloween decor has become the same hot commodity as Christmas tree decorations before the new year....
...(Check out the cut-up fire escape, reused as industrial decoration, in the lobby.)...
...I suspect the last thing David Hockney would want for his California paintings of the 1960s would be for them to be seen as manifestos of gay liberation....
...“The decoration is 100 per cent from Omega Workshops,” says Morgan-Cox, “but I was also inspired by Fontana paintings, Gio Ponti furniture, and a Victorian British designer named Charles Bevan who made very...
...There’s hidden painting in everything I do....
...The iconic London fashion store of the ’60s and ’70s was not the only source of inspiration for the 11-year-old Crawford....
...Visiting feels, as one visitor put it, like stepping into a Norman Rockwell painting. I took pictures of everything but could never seem to capture it in one frame....
...“It was simple and very well structured — in the same category as I like to make my paintings.”...
...“The bit of John Lewis that I’ve always loved most is the haberdashery at Peter Jones [the department store on Sloane Square].”...
...I like the idea of painting this a bright colour....
...“People were a little lost walking down the aisle of a DIY store,” London says....
...Of course, his work rarely fitted neatly into boxes, and for much of his career he explored a love of decoration with the artist Piero Fornasetti....
...“I especially like the more primitive early ceramic animals,” says the découpage artist, whose New York stores stock such antiques....
...The Kaufmann Office has been in store for most of the time since it was presented to the V&A museum by Edgar J....
...Perhaps once in a generation interiors become something more than just decoration and they indicate shifts in culture or the economy....
...“And one of the ideas behind the extension was to have a map room, a place to store the drawings I’ve been collecting for 30 years.”...
...My tapestry “Large Expensive Abstract Painting” was inspired by an actual visit to an art collector’s house in San Francisco. Centre stage he had hung one of Gerhard Richter’s squeegee paintings....
...Today, there is a resurgence of Lacroix in fashion, in his use of colour, of decoration, of the historio- and ethnographic reference points he loved....
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