Seated at the counter at Rivera downtown one night, I watched a chef assemble mushroom carpaccio, shaving king oyster, bluefoot and chanterelle mushrooms onto a square plate in a loose, eccentric design that could have come from Jackson Pollack.
The 70s setting is careful and affectionate (great to see the Sony Trinitron KV1300UB telly, an eccentric 70s design madeleine that nerd-connoisseurs will prefer to the Spacehopper) but this is a gentle, sentimentalised 70s, without the menace or real depression evoked by Life on Mars or the Red Riding films.
My favourite cafe is Gildas Rum (Skånegatan 79) – eccentric design, great cakes and overlooking a little city park.
On one hand, the agreeable shape of the third-generation Focus could stimulate sales of E.V.'s in a way that the Nissan Leaf, with its more eccentric design, never could.
Palermo's restless stabs at new motifs come a cropper with an inexplicable fondness for little triangular reliefs and for wall-mounted T shapes, in wood or metal, sometimes paired with roughly painted panels of fragmentary, eccentric design.
It's not clear yet whether Insomniac's incendiary and eccentric design, with its Dayglo visuals and restlessly twitchy freerunning mechanics, can maintain all that energy over a full game.
In the Southbank's Queen Elizabeth Hall, the classic fairytale of greed and lies is altered almost beyond recognition by the Australian company Windmill Theatre, with eccentric design, abrasive songs and patronising script eventually winding themselves around the moral that you should be careful what you wish for.
Most follow the same eccentric design: their window-frames painted in strong shades of lilac; their gabled roofs topped by silver finials, shaped like miniature versions of Shanghai's Oriental Pearl Tower.Cheap and cheerful is also the operating principle of Haolaiwu Textiles, which sells bright curtains to clients in Germany, Italy and elsewhere in Europe.
For now enjoy these images of this precious, eccentric design exercise.
Today it's easy to be amused at how primitive these computers seem, with their blocky graphics, tiny memories, beepy sound and sometimes eccentric design features.
Its out-of-place Italianate architecture, which dates back to the 1920s, is a mixture of decorative styles and eccentric designs, creating a fantasy land that was later used as the backdrop to the 1960s British sci-fi drama, The Prisoner.
