An old firehouse with exposed brick walls makes a graceful setting for Montrio Bistro (414 Calle Principal; 831-648-8880; www.montrio.com), a stylish grown-up restaurant that's cordial to young ones.
The third work by a composer under age 40 (38 in this case) was Eric Whitaker's graceful setting of an E. E. Cummings poem, "I Thank You God for Most This Amazing Day," a score that seems on its way to becoming a contemporary choral staple.
Edgarian's graceful novel, set in Silicon Valley after the boom, explores the intricate economies of a modern American marriage.
Also here is the "Graceful Writing Set" he sold through Marshall Field's department store in Chicago, a rotating desk and high-backed chair intended perhaps for the home offices of 19th-century aesthetes like Oscar Wilde.
Inspired by the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge's 75th Anniversary in 2011, its 25,000 white LED lights are individually programmed by artist Leo Villareal to create a perpetual display of light art emanating from the Bay Bridge's graceful architecture, set to illuminate the sky through March 2015.
It's the end of a discussion session on the academies bill at the Teaching Awards regional final for the south-west; Baroness Shirley Williams, chair of UK judges, asks if she might take a straw poll of the 40-odd nominated teaching staff now gathered in the graceful Georgian setting of Bath's Assembly Rooms.
Like Mr. Cave, Low delivered an understated, graceful and beguiling set that was even a fraction more upbeat than past Low shows.
This graceful, intelligent production, set at the turn of the 20th century, is all about her, the Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi (pronounced like sushi, but with equal emphasis on the two syllables), played convincingly and with great flair by Tina Chen.
It also could have encompassed the stunning mahogany gueridon, or small-top table (about 1835), whose white marble slab is supported by three graceful, arching legs set on a base.
The scroll was placed in an illuminated box with handles, then rolled from one side to the other; each backlighted scene passed through the frame like a graceful comic strip set in motion.
