In the Ardèche they worked furiously, tended vines, wrote, painted and created splendid apotropaic reliefs of strange beasts in the garden.
Yet over the course of a few decades developers created splendid neighborhoods all over the city: working-class apartments in Alphabet City, brownstones on Strivers' Row in Harlem and solid middle-class apartments on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, along Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn and in Jackson Heights, Queens.
Whether it be organic fruit, vegetables, meat and fish as in Luke Burgess' restaurant, or preserving traditional ways of both gardening and creating splendid dishes as Dai Jianjun does, these masters of the kitchen, remind us of how eating itself is part of the interconnected ecosystem which cannot be ignored.
Many long-distance paths can be linked to create a splendid walk.
Sirk, not for the last time, seems to let the performances get away from him in this talky piece, but he uses the studio environment to create some splendid false perspectives and dappled lighting schemes.
The grilles create a splendid texture, and the building manages to appear pristine without being prissy, which is no small achievement amid the cheap, multiplex-theatre glitz that has taken over most of the rest of the block.
In keeping with Wilder's dictum of no scenery for the play, Wilson uses little more than ladders and some basic but right-on lighting, with two Foley tables on either side of the stage where actors create a splendid and subtle array of sound effects.
Earlier his gorgeous little flick created a splendid chance ballooned over the bar by Gomez.
Salvador Dalí was the high priest of Surrealism, creating a splendid array of art and redefining what could be achieved with paint and canvas in the process.
