Their diner has dark wooden tables and delicate cherry blossom designs on chocolate brown walls.
A small bride, outfitted in a white kimono with delicate, gold cranes is 2,600 yen (about $27, at 97 yen to the dollar), while a 13-inch-tall Noh dancer holding an ornate fan with a cherry-blossom design runs 262,500 yen (about $2,706).
At Glo Hotel Art in the city's blossoming Design District, the hotel's public areas had a former life as the highly popular Student Union of the Helsinki University of Technology.
With its delicate blossom silhouette, Canopy Designs' Dandelion chandelier conjures a carefree, summery spirit.
NEW YORK Blossom and Branch, a design firm based in Brooklyn, offers a monthly class in Lower Manhattan, which generally costs about $150 for three hours, as well as private parties, including "Bodega Flowers 101," a lesson focused on ordinary flowers from the corner grocery: (347) 422-7066, blossomandbranch.com.
So, when a bright, playful design element blossoms in our municipal nether world, it deserves notice, even gratitude.
Punk often sneered at "art" as airy-fairy, bourgeois self-indulgence, but its ranks were full of art-school graduates and this artiness blossomed with the sound, design and stage presentation of bands such as Wire and Talking Heads.
Computational protein design has blossomed with the development of methods for addressing the complexities involved in specifying the structure, sequence and function of proteins.
About 12 feet square, made for the most part of tulip and hyacinth blossoms, they are designed on inclined backgrounds for better visibility.
