For a more elaborate cake stand display, do the previous suggestion but rest the cake stand inside an egg wreath, with the eggs coming up to the base of the cake stand.
"Elaborate lemonade stand," she said to Mr. Orobona.
Typically, at such events, the destination is an open-air field or arena featuring an elaborate speakers' stand, with a backstage infrastructure of headquarters tents, satellite vans, and port-a-cans.
He caused uproars by displaying objects such as a gasoline pump designed by the Standard Oil Company (1934), Meret Oppenheim's fur-covered teacup (1936), and an elaborate shoeshine stand (1942) made by its owner, Joe Milone, an Italian bootblack.
As ghosts of the follies, women in elaborate costumes stand in the shadows, the foreground blends past and present.
At Moss, in SoHo, he eyed the glass cases warily, unimpressed by elaborate porcelain cake stands and sculptural flatware.
If nothing else, Here, My Dear represents the apotheosis of the gospel-soul tradition, in which sophisticated, shudderingly elaborate vocal harmony stands for the outreach of the human spirit in the general direction of the ineffable.
No matter where I go in the U.S. -- New York City, Washington, D.C., small-town bakeries, or the most elaborate artisan bread stands I can find -- I don't find that warm, steamy stuff of my childhood.
Two women, wearing elaborate ball gowns, stood slouched by a heat lamp and smoked cigarettes.
