We drove west along the coast from Bilbao, to the town of Comillas, to have lunch at El Capricho de Gaudí, a restaurant that occupies a fantastically glittering tile-covered villa designed as a summer pavilion by Gaudí and built in 1883.
The colors tingle and vibrate, and he outdoes himself in the restaurant's most memorable feature, a glittering blue tile wall with a thin sheet of water running over its two-story surface.
AS the house lights dim for the second act of each performance of Madonna's "Confessions" tour, the singer, wearing a crown of thorns, begins her 1986 anthem, "Live to Tell," while her body hangs in mock crucifixion on a cross glittering with the mirrored tiles of a disco ball.
Done in his trademark shiny white mosaic tile and glittering chandeliers, the shop is stocked with mostly Italian products, like dried porcini, sea salts, herbs and spices, excellent Mancini pasta and olive oils.
"In The Cypress Tree, I wanted instead to recount tales of the beautiful country where I grew up, with a rich history that has influenced so much in western culture, where love and belly laughs were plentiful, where turquoise tiles glittered on walls, and where there was jasmine on the breeze and ruby-red pieces of pomegranate lovingly peeled by an army of aunts.
Iran has sprawling pre-Islamic ruins, mosques glittering with kaleidoscopic mosaics of tile, and cities that present both a stern theocratic face and a glitzier Western one set to a ring-tone soundtrack.
The New Yorker, April 7 , 1934P. 17 Recently we had to make our way through that long tunnel, tile-lined and glittering, connecting the Seventh Avenue subway with the Hudson Tibes and 34th Str.
A 25-foot expanse of glittering blue and green glass tile from Italy, the pool, completed last year, cantilevers out from a steep hillside and hugs the 5,500-square-foot 5,500-square-foot 5,500-square-footsely thousehe honce appears to float on a sliver of blue.
