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...To begin, the brood are preparing for the annual contest for the street’s most lavish Yuletide decorations. Neighbourly jostling ensues, but not before a sudden chill....
...Those looking for more traditional decorations, meanwhile, can opt for pine cones or a set of 1930s-style silver baubles....
...“We hope we can introduce our customers to new jewellery brands and propose the idea of jewellery as an extension of their self-expression and less as decoration.”...
...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....
...“There’s a huge pain in our hearts, so we can’t — we’re not ready to see a tree or any kind of decoration,” said Ishaq....
...For everything from Christmas-tree decorations to Nutcracker figurines, this place is a delight....
...Starbucks shed 2.5 per cent after a union representing workers announced a strike next week in response to the café chain not allowing Pride decorations....
...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....
...Awnings are not only decoration. Blinds and curtains are fine but awnings keep the heat out before it gets into the building: they are low-tech but high-efficiency....
...For many, decoration is key to this exploration, starting with markers of childhood such as cuddly toys or pebbles from the beach....
...Invariably dressed in uniform and decorations parading a two-decade military career, the 44-year-old was considered the former president’s right-hand man....
...When Loos was commissioned in 1909 to design a store for a gentlemen’s outfitters in Vienna opposite the fussy Baroque Hofburg palace, the media erupted in outrage....
...It also works as a lantern for the store below (which actually occupies the space of a former cinema)....
...of a multibillion-dollar trade in everything from Christmas decorations to toys and umbrellas to pencils....
...With its 75,000 stores, Yiwu has been nicknamed China’s trinket town, the centre of a multibillion-dollar trade in everything from Christmas decorations to toys and umbrellas to pencils....
...Swedes mark the end of Christmas with a Knut’s party, a tradition in which gingerbread houses are smashed, decorations are put away and Christmas trees are plundered of sweets and then discarded....
...“You know, when you are born in Rome, you are not afraid of decoration,” she says. “Once my mother said, why do we like to dress up in Rome?...
...I have not been gazing at diamonds through the night-time window of the jeweller’s store....
...I have hundreds – they’re such a great medium for paint and great for stashing art supplies or Christmas decorations.”...
...For me, it comes down to, we all have bodies worthy of decoration.”...
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