"The vulgarity of current decoration," Wharton wrote, "has its source in the indifference of the wealthy to architectural fitness". No amount of money could cover up the poor design of Kykuit.
Inventory all of your current Christmas decorations and plan where you'll put them long before you head for the decorations isle.
The current Moscow Spring decorations, eclectic as they may seem, with their mixture of themes, styles, and materials, have this in common: they are created for a public whose aesthetic senses have been profoundly dulled.
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On a wall, investigators found pictures of current soldiers wearing Nazi military decorations and helmets and gripping Nazi pistols.
"More discreet, or traditional, decoration is the current flavor," says André Balazs, who recently hired Roman and Williams to work on his Standard hotel in New York.
The designer called his use of color and shape as "poised between realism and abstraction," by which he meant there was a harmonious unity about the decoration, not the current shock of over-sized or dramatically digitalized prints.
By James Stevenson The New Yorker, December 18 , 1978P. 34 Twelve drawings showing gifts with Egyptian decorations, influenced by the current King Tutankhamun exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The decoration translates a pictorial current illusionist stemming from the Hellenistic art.
This year's theme is inspired by the current exhibition "The Power of Poison," and the decorations represent toxic creatures such as scorpions and fire ants.
