Said Toshiko Mori, former chair of architecture at Harvard: "What stands out most about Mr. Maki is…the creation of ineffable atmospheres; his buildings convey a quiet and elegant moment of reflection".
And Alber Elbaz's beautiful show at Lanvin demonstrated that not only is it possible for a stout, middle-aged man to gaze in the mirror — he designs facing one — and conjure from the reflection an elegant Gallic woman, but also to increase profits while doing so through the use of synthetics and not silk.
Elkin's flâneuse does not simply wander aimlessly, any more than Elkin does herself in this elegant book: she uses her reflection to question, challenge and create anew the life that she observes.
The contrast of the highly-polished material and elegant curves is a fitting reflection of the sophisticated technology held within.
They are unexpectedly elegant affairs, as well as reflections of some of the new agrarian-centered, fresh-instead-of-deep-fried thinking that is cropping up in Southern kitchens.
This elegant work is a mordantly entertaining reflection on the uses of literature and imagination; alert readers may be inspired to apply its lessons to the text at hand.
In some works elegant glass or metal objects and their reflections or refractions combine with pale, sometimes crisply segmented backdrops, forming spare still lifes that are also quasi-abstract meditations on optics.
His movies, which span three decades, "are full of elegant, witty sequences and arrestingly beautiful images, reflections on the process of filmmaking and examinations of the concrete facts of human experience and the natural world.
The piece is the latest instalment of their ongoing Spectra series, a merging of physical and virtual sculptures that take inspiration from space, technology, and our relationships to them, to provide elegant and sensory experiences using sound, light, and reflection.
And "Circle" was an elegant success, its drifting melody seamlessly paired with a reflection on romantic continuity.
