Imagine if the collagist Joseph Cornell had been born late enough to build one of his delicate boxes around rock 'n' roll.
Shakers are best known for delicate oval boxes with lids, made from sugar maple and white pine and then painted.
Some of the final items on display are beautifully embellished keys and delicate lockable boxes, specifically designed to keep these prized possessions safe.
The totems — an ashtray from the Iranian ambassador, delicate pill boxes and pencil cases — were placed with geometric precision on the coffee tables.
Having established a tone of subdued whimsy – emphasised by Nick Powell's delicate music-box melodies – the production takes us from scene to amusing scene with too little underlying sense of urgency.
As the soundtrack changes from music-box delicate to hard-edged punk, the movie becomes a sad but conventional study of throwaway street kids.
The watercolor and ink illustrations show most of the indoor scenes in delicate square panels, boxed in by thick white margins.
Also here are sumptuous accessories for the calligrapher: lacquered brush boxes, delicate ceramic brush stands shaped like flora and fauna, and gilded "writing cabinets" that also hold paper and ink.
Some of the most beautiful and ingenious objects in the exhibition are the delicate bowls and boxes made from paper, wood and ceramics by Choi Jungyou, Kim Yikyung and other designers, who reinterpreted ancient techniques and materials to produce them.
Mr. McShine wanted to find a way to avoid isolating Cornell's delicate, poetic shadow boxes in cases or cabinets, and Mr. Neuner devised a plan for hanging most of them on the walls, as if they were paintings or sculptural reliefs.
