"Beautiful discards," said Mr. Lisicky, pointing out his most recent haul of two thin birch trunks.
On Christine Jones's set, bare birch trunks stretch upwards like a warren of bones.
The design scheme involves tasteful variations of beige and taupe, along with a few artfully arranged birch trunks.
Christoph Sehl's sets featured wide spaces and tall birch trunks, often surrounding and sometimes invading the interior scenes.
Then I realised Klimt's birch trunks are mimicking trapunto, where raised decorative matter is sewn on to/into the textile, bringing supplementary textures to the flat material.
Isolated in a white room with two birch trunks, strewn with piles of paper (Clint Ramos designed the set), the character is Victorian and quite mad, ticking and grinning and ranting and struggling to maintain composure.
20 rue Rennequin, 75017 (01 47 63 40 77) Le Murat Over-the-top interior based on the Grande Armée of the Napoleonic Wars: blood-red chairs, violet and green silk curtains hiding one or two alcoves, and silver birch trunks on wall and ceiling.
Right now, Oktoberfest is in full swing, a magic time when the restaurant becomes a German forest, with white birch trunks supporting clusters of red, orange and yellow pin-oak leaves.
On Tom Scutt's minimalist set silvery birch trunks, at times sprinkled with snow, add atmosphere to what Miller has described as the show's timeless but vaguely 19th-century Eastern European setting.
The space itself is demure, almost cold, with a sylvan interior (wood-panelled entry, colorfully lit mobiles of crosshatched sticks, bluntly lopped-off birch trunks propped up in the corners) that somewhat sinisterly echoes the leafiness of Madison Square Park, just across the way.
