Sentence examples for black terra from inspiring English sources
Here, he used everyday objects: lotus petals covered in gold leaf float above 473 black terra cotta bells arranged in a semicircular wall.
IN 1932 Boak & Paris designed a pink and black terra cotta movie house on Broadway near 99th Street -- now the Metro Theater, formerly the Midtown.
This was possible because the entire facade hung from cantilevers, with no exterior columns, and because he used a minimum amount of masonry, specifically lightly glazed cream, green and black terra cotta.
The 16-story building has no cornice, but two floors below the top it sports a startling up-and-down ribbon of green and black terra cotta, with curious polygonal shapes strung out like musical notes.
Violence is "nature," Mr. Abdessemed continued, and it is central to his work: his retrospective here features an airplane fuselage crumpled to resemble an Algerian pastry and three black terra cotta vehicle carcasses, molded from cars burned in the 2005 riots.
It is an agreeable Art Deco work of black terra-cotta block but, to judge by what you can see from the sidewalk, its Art Deco lobby is getting a particularly brutal renovation.
This lovely little pink-and-black terra-cotta jewel is dirtier than an old sneaker, but the original whimsy is still clear in the modernistic comedy/tragedy medallion in the center.
He uses auto body paint to makes his figures all white, black or terra cotta red, which gives them a spectral appearance.
Earth tones of brown, black, tan, terra cotta and slate green spread at his feet in geometric patterns that seemed to change before your eyes.
Tucuman called next, and we ventured to the residential and shopping section of Barrio Norte, and to La Querencia, an inviting, comfortable cafe stylishly done up in black and terra cotta.
And their new clothes — boxy jackets with turnkey locks, wide-leg trousers in black or terra-cotta suede, austere coats and blazers in a flat rigid crepe — uncannily reflected what they said about home.
