" Butter, butter, butter; every meal butter.
Samantha von Sperling is an image consultant in New York, but lately her bread-and-butter Wall Street clients have asked her to help their daughters get ready for rush at schools like Harvard; the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and New York University, which has added three chapters since 2006 and more than doubled the number of sisters, to 570.
Brokerage firms were once the bread and butter of Wall Street.
The larger settlements had white-walled monasteries, or gompas, whose dark, musty chambers housed clay statues of Buddhist deities, sculptures made of pungent yak butter and wall cubicles that held holy books wrapped in orange cloth.
The church, with its butter cream walls and soaring ceilings, is steeped in history.
The butter yellow walls and golden plaid curtains say "Good morning!" as plates and flatware clatter in the kitchen.
On one recent afternoon, Laura Calzolari, the school's executive director, let the obvious speak for itself: the elegantly renovated lobby, with its curving butter-yellow wall; the décor of the teaching studios, each distinguished by a swath of blue, peach, coral or green paint; the spritely notes etched into each floor-to-ceiling set of glass double doors.
The main dining room, with butter-cream walls and overhead fans, is cool and relatively serene.
The rest of the decor is also simple and runs to lace curtains, butter-yellow walls and wrought-iron sconces.
Dora Schaefer, an interior designer, gave the ground floor butter-yellow walls and a mural of children's faces.
