When Jim's mother rejects an earnest suitor rather than be untrue to her dead husband, the past becomes spiritually palpable in a way that can't be achieved by strewing around antiques and references to historical events.
At a mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut, Wood used German and Russian antiques as references to the owners upbringing.
All dance beautifully, and the combinations of classical ballet elements and references to antique friezes, with abrupt injections of modern movements, move inevitably from beginning to end.
Roomy enough to slip easily over a suit, but slim enough to look youthful with jeans and a sweater, this mid-thigh coated-cotton twill coat has little details, like antique brass zippers, that reference the trench heritage without taking on heaviness.
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Quintessential Beane touches include the run-down convent's being eyed by "two bachelors who deal in antiques" and a reference to an all-black version of "Funny Girl," the Barbra Streisand musical.
Asked if he was interested in antique clothes, he said that references from the past sometimes find their way into the clothes he designs.
The results included strange and constricting spatial relationships, jarring juxtapositions of intense and unnatural colours, an emphasis on abnormalities of scale, a sometimes totally irrational mix of classical motifs and other visual references to the antique, and inventive and grotesque pictorial fantasies.
The 24-piece collection is both "very personal," drawing on inspiration from Guinness' life (including her childhood home in Spain) and very artistic (with references ranging from antique Chinese porcelain vases to the Old Masters to American painter James Whistler).
In 1950 Albert Sack wrote the definitive reference book for antique dealers, Fine Points of Furniture: Early American, Good, Better, Best, Superior, Masterpiece, followed in 1993 by The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American.
