Soft dining chairs surround carefully appointed tables, each one brightened by a seasonal flower, perhaps a parrot tulip or a daffodil.
Inside, perfect lighting, a soothing color scheme, carefully appointed tables and, not least, trained personnel have marked this restaurant's graceful style for more than two decades.
"Where is the quality in these people?" Then he walked me inside to his carefully appointed display counter, and offered $890.
Some viewers may find the dissipation self-conscious or arty; the meticulousness of Mr. Curran's direction and Dion Beebe's cinematography, as well as the carefully appointed mess of Cynthia and Gordon's living quarters, are hard to miss.
Once past security, I felt as if I had walked into Starbucks or maybe an exclusive men's club, a busy, stained-glass beehive of hushed activity and carefully appointed furnishings.
WITH only three days to go before the Watermill Center's annual fund-raising gala, the German artist and provocateur Jonathan Meese had arrived to wreak havoc on the institution's carefully appointed white-cube galleries.
The hotel's name, drawn from the Harvard motto, is Latin for truth, but Veritas is actually a kind of fake-out: it looks like a stately residence, perhaps left over from the Gilded Age, but is really a brand-new hotel designed by the architect Mark Boyes-Watson, with 31 small but carefully appointed rooms.
(He makes the woman breakfast, but stands at an awkward remove when she leaves.) From the cool, sleek surfaces of his carefully appointed apartment and the downward curve of his mouth, it appears that Michael either lives an ordered if unhappy life or that Mr. Daldry has no fear when it comes to embracing stereotypes about chilly Germans.
Some viewers may find the dissipation self-conscious or arty; the meticulousness of Mr. Curran's direction and Dion Beebe's cinematography, as well as the carefully appointed mess of Cynthia and Gordon's living quarters, are hard to miss.
But what it lacks in space, it makes up for in character: Mrs. Li has carefully appointed the interiors with antique chests, chairs and wash basins, as well as cheerful touches like mirrors painted with Peking Opera stars, vintage floral wallpaper, and lanterns and birdcages hanging from the rafters.
A gallery of presidential portraits in a carefully appointed room.
