Her natural habitat appears to be a palace filled with rococo furniture, though if she falls in with bad company (like the marvelously perverse Pina Menichelli in "Storia di una Donna") she may land in an assassins' den decorated with chinoiserie and intricate screens modeled on the Alhambra.
The restoration of the intricate screen in St Cadoc's at Llancarfan near Barry marks the end of a four year major conservation project.
The four central upper arches form balconies or viewing areas, and each balcony's exterior window has an intricate screen or 'jali' cut from marble.
From their gallery upstairs, women glimpsed the goings-on through an intricate wooden screen, as was customary in Orthodox Judaism.
There are felicitous moments, however, such as Ariane and Simon bathing on opposite sides of an intricate glass screen, elegantly suggesting both eroticism and estrangement.
A large lounge/bar segues into a series of dining areas and private rooms in which candles flicker, beaded brass chandeliers glow and intricate filigree screens cast shadows over diners reclining on lavishly cushioned banquettes like pampered sultans.
The parlor was practically a salesroom for European decorative arts, walls of antique red velvet flanking a colossal fireplace assemblage: an Egyptian-style mantel, topped with an intricate gilt screen over a mirror, and flanked by bulbous twisted columns crowned with improbably small Corinthian capitals.
Paul and Mary Klotman bought 387 West End in the 1990's, and have substantial portions of the original finishes: most of an intricate spindle-screen balustrade, swelling spiral colonettes on an oak mantelpiece, and a frieze of sunflowers on a wooden mantelpiece on the second floor.
As more components of the plant small RNA machinery are identified by more intricate genetic screens and biochemical methods, the relationship and divergence between plant species and lineages will increasingly be an area of interest.
But when it baulked at the expense, McCutcheon proposed a far cheaper modern alternative: a concrete-encased, steel-framed rectangular box with glass curtain walls and brick in-fill, and an interior of Swedish birch incorporating an intricate stained-glass screen designed by Douglas Annand and a chancellor's throne fashioned by Grant Featherston.
