She had a strong fascination with silhouette, textile design, surface embellishment, and color," said Green, who is also an assistant professor in the Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design.
It is never mere surface embellishment.
The soft sculptures and surface embellishment enlarged the designer's range without compromising his identity.
Later examples, from the Shang (18th 12th century bc) and Zhou dynasties (1111 256/255 bc), have increasingly elaborate surface embellishment, especially in the late Zhou (c. 600 256/255 bc), when the bi appeared in combination with other forms.
Modernism also seems more like surface embellishment than structural change in much Italian Futurism, represented here by several works borrowed from the museum's sister institution, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.
According to Harris (2013, p. 242), "as design practitioners challenge perceived notions of textile, substrate, and skin through relatively newfound digital contexts, resulting propositions include high-tech interfaces for communication, surface embellishment, and guise".
American objects include some widely exhibited silver and bronze vessels by known designers and producers, most of which differ from the English selections in their bold, plain forms and less fussy surface embellishments.
Lace is being used not just as embellishment (though the Louis Vuitton collection had decorative openwork collars), but as a surface texture laid on solid materials.
Lace is being used not just as embellishment — though the Louis Vuitton collection had decorative open-work collars — but as a surface texture laid on solid materials.
