My friend Kathleen started to throw away the curtains: "No, not the curtains!" I had bought the fabric — a fanciful print of Turks leading a menagerie of camels — in 1989, in Lexington, Virginia, and a friend had sewn the curtains for me.
My friend Kathleen started to throw away the curtains: "No, not the curtains!" I had bought the fabric a fanciful print of Turks leading a menagerie of camels in 1989, in Lexington, Virginia, and a friend had sewn the curtains for me.
Inspired by nature, from predatory birds to writhing snakes, the designer skillfully folded exotic prints or fanciful feathers into a fashion lexicon that included plaid and tweed from his family's Scottish heritage.
But no one had taken photographs of Egypt, photography being just a decade old, and in Du Camp you can see a new medium used to capture sights afresh -- an opportunity seized to show everybody back home what they knew only from artists' and archaeologists' more or less fanciful drawings, paintings and prints.
The exhibition includes his fanciful jewelry, as well as paintings, prints and drawings.
Also on view are several of the sometimes fanciful original broadsides and silk-screen prints that showcase Mr. Zapf's calligraphic gifts, using the writings of Shakespeare, Goethe, Schiller, Holderlin, Whitman and Lao Tse.
Among the highlights are an epoxy resin version of a 19th-century marble portrait bust, this time with a fanciful hat by Stephen Jones, and 15 pairs of printed shoes that Moss placed around the Great Bed of Ware, which was made for an inn, and was something of a 16th-century swinger's paradise.
It was built for a company that printed the humor magazine Judge, which carried fanciful illustrations.
When she spotted 18th-century prints of insects by Franz Panzer, framed with letterpress cards with a fanciful red border, she had to have them.
Each print and outdoor ad uses photographs that have run in Fortune to illustrate a fanciful rule derived from its coverage of the economy, companies and well-known business personalities.
