He has spoken of the moment when he takes a blade to the sleek surface of an old bromide print as one of heightened anxiety and tension – having handled and gazed at these images for months or even years, he likes to get the incision over and done with as swiftly as possible.
The design style is very much Asian, with the bed and furniture low to the ground, all sleek surfaces of black lacquered furniture, wood and leather, and the carpeting is textured to resemble the rake lines in a sandy zen garden.
It's a sleek, elegant surface of undiluted simplicity.
(Harper/HarperCollins, $27.99). The heir to a construction empire goes missing on the Greek island of Patmos in Bollen's third novel, a seductive and richly atmospheric literary thriller with a sleek Patricia Highsmith surface.
He painted horizontal landscapes and scenes of the coast that were characterized by their sleek surface, compositional balance, aerial vantage point, an atmosphere of tranquility, a high level of detail, and, in particular, a striking effect of shimmering light.
Yet despite the sleek surface and fun retro aspects (Jordache jeans, VCRs, landlines), setting the show in the Reagan era is more than a gimmick.
If the fields of pansies, hydrangeas and peonies on the sleek surface of the couture silks lift your heart, it's not because they are beautiful, though they are.
Political discontent seems to bubble beneath the film's sleek surface.
Crack open their sleek surfaces and you find a jumble of standalone processors.
Meant to represent life in 1985, it was a paradigm-shifting, atomic age showplace of sleek surfaces and synthetic materials.
