By acquiring neighboring structures, Johns Manville was able to enlarge and raise its building to 26 stories from 12. Ludlow & Peabody repeated Mr. Allen's delicate tapestry brick and some of the pointed arches but gave the building a top with more of a Lombard feel, and projecting battlements and a tile-roofed tank house reminiscent of an Italian hill town.
Throughout the narrative, Sampson weaves a delicate tapestry that includes observations of modern ecology, diversity, and environment and links those threads to the distant past.
A rape, a massacre, an English missionary burning herself alive: these events rupture the delicate narrative tapestry, refusing to be assimilated into the official history of the Raj.
From the first, as almost 2,000 lengths of wool (warps) are stretched taut on the loom like great guitar strings, to the rhythmic rippling of the wooden bobbins, delicate as wind chimes as the tapestry is wound down to retain its tension.
Copies abound, but there's no mistaking the real McCoy with its vibrant colors and delicate flowers, reminiscent of the Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters.
Within weeks they will have stretched and begun to open their delicate pale yellow flowers, followed by a tapestry of coppery pink foliage.
He weaves the essences of private life into the tapestry of history with deliberate and delicate skill; he has created a panorama of breathtaking emotional force, a masterpiece of pacing, of dedicated storytelling, with characters whose lives are etched with extraordinary, vivid detail.
Her childhood task in the workshop was to draw cartoons of the missing feet of figures; her mother, with delicate scissors, would snip out the genitals from tapestries destined for the puritan American market.
Drawbacks like erratic heat and leaky windows were offset by original floors and moldings, windows that faced a tapestry of trees, and fireplaces on whose mantels an artist had painted delicate floral designs.
Some 200 handsomely displayed objects crowd the rooms in the Grand Palais, among them stained glass, tapestries, stone carvings, wood furniture, a fountain, paintings, illuminated manuscripts, enamels, maps and delicate blown glass.
The exhibition has more than its share of show-stoppers (including a large tapestry mandala synthesizing Tibetan imagery with Mongolian craft), but it's the domestic objects — a delicate cup and saucer in vivid blue glass, a porcelain pillow crafted to resemble a tiny theatre — that really enthrall.
