Thankfully, the San Francisco artist never quit his day job — and went on to a lustrous career designing everything from groovy gift wrap for Apple to concert posters for bands like Radiohead and the Flaming Lips.
Scattered throughout are whimsical animals, vegetable-shape vessels and odd figurines like the devilish little monk with a bright red face and lustrous blue robe designed by Harry Tittensor and produced by Royal Doulton in 1916.
The VoodooPC was not quite as fast as the others, but its lustrous finish and elegant design attracted the most attention.
Although soot and grime caused by candles, incense and radiators have all but obscured their beauty, the 14 lustrous works, which were designed and manufactured a century ago in Venice, are by any reckoning a stunning piece of art, a tour de force in thousands of colors.
She was taken by a photograph in the book "Parish-Hadley: Sixty Years of American Design": walls a lustrous peacock blue glowed in the living room of a Manhattan aerie decorated by the firm in the 1970's.
It has been rereleased in a stunning new print that showcases Vittorio Storaro's lustrous cinematography and Walter Murch's swirling, precise sound design, as well as Mr. Coppola's grand and sometimes murky vision.
"Great Scott" was designed as a vehicle for the lustrous mezzo Joyce DiDonato, whose career resembles that of the fictional Scott in more than a few respects.
Sophie Mallebranche, winner of an award for textile design at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in May, creates lustrous woven fabrics by weaving metallic threads -- copper, stainless steel, bronze or brass -- with linen, silk or silicone fibers.
Through a combination of design and 3D animation, Keays drops his lustrous female figures into various dreamlike settings, creating almost frightening portraits and visual patterns. .
When it is finished next year, the new $27 million Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by Farshid Moussavi, will perch, like a lustrous black gem, at the entrance to the district, at Euclid and Mayfield Road.
