Sentence examples for decorative mode from inspiring English sources
But it was only in the Spanish-style tooleatherther bags or jacket that the Latin decorative mode made fashion sense.
Sōtatsu's lush screen painting, said to describe the scene at Matsushima Bay on Japan's northeast Pacific coast, is a superb statement of elemental power couched in a decorative mode.
The clients, two artists, had a big design input into the house and had originally wanted to refurbish the earlier industrial building, which they had already turned into a gleaming, uninterrupted white space – their preferred decorative mode.
BRIDGET RILEY New oils and gouaches by the former doyenne of Op art (seen here and in the gallery's West Twenty-fifth Street space) raise her current mode of decorative abstraction to pitches of urbane bliss.
Internet shops are aware of the boost to trade promised by the festive season and are already in Christmas mode - expect to see plenty of decorative flakes and snow-dusted price tags.
Diaghilev pioneered something far beyond specific modes, though: "Astonish me," he demanded of his creators in fine and decorative arts, and astonishment, or anyway shock, has been the fashion norm since.
Van de Velde, the leading spokesman for the movement as well as one of its most skilled practitioners, in his essay "Déblaiement d'art" (1892) advocated the development of a new art, one that would be both vital and moral, like the great decorative arts of the past, but that would use contemporary modes.
The show's inclusion of fabric and decorative art marks an insurgent appreciation, taking hold in the sixties, of formerly patronized modes of "women's work".
What about decorative touches?
