He constructed the famed Golden Pavilion (Kinkaku-ji; see below The establishment of warrior culture) northeast of the capital in Kitayama, taking great pride in its luxurious display, and also reestablished trade and diplomacy with Ming dynasty China under the title "King of Japan".
If art were to be recognized as going beyond idle pleasure or luxurious display, and morals were seen as a matter of shared values, then the problem of their relation would be resolved.
Behind many holes, volleyball-sized peonies stood three feet high; red flowers as bright as chili peppers and luxurious multiflower displays dotted the course.
These gardens were conspicuously luxurious in their display of precious materials and artificial in their use of hydraulic automata.
Mesopotamian gardens were places where shade and cool water could be enjoyed; Hellenistic gardens were conspicuously luxurious in their display of precious materials, a tradition carried over by Byzantine gardens.
In his Laguna Beach boutique, Aris, and his second-story garden apartment behind the shop, there is a pared-down yet luxurious aesthetic on display.
The show focuses not on artisans who make objects as luxurious showpieces or displays of artistic sensibility, but on those who makes things that people might buy at less than fine-art prices and use in their homes.
Janet Lippman's "Red, White and Blue, Giverny" and other paintings of Monet's gardens at Giverny are on display in "Luxurious Gardens of Giverny and Other Splendors".
Times are tough now, but Cadillac also needs a super-premium flagship, such as the luxurious Cadillac 16 show car the company displayed a few years ago and then, of course, decided not to build it.
Dodge displayed a luxurious version of the Power Wagon, the name used on a crude military-turned-civilian pickup truck of the 40's, the Dodge Charger muscle car and the Chrysler Hemi convertible.
On cobblestoned Hannover Street, old-fashioned lanterns cast rosy light on expensive boutiques displaying jewelry, luxurious home furnishings, antiques and handmade shoes, an important local industry along with costume jewelry and Mahón cheese.
