Sentence examples for period decor from inspiring English sources

The period decor and details are all right, but it all just feels so wrong.

Inside it was comfortable, spacious, with a curious period decor reminiscent of the 1970s BBC play Abigail's Party.

Their meticulous restoration and carefully sourced period decor has recreated the kind of throwback opulence once enjoyed by Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, who took their honeymoon here.

In 1906, as director of the state-subsidized Théâtre de l'Odéon, he produced classical plays in which he strove for realism not by means of period decor and costume but by re-creating theatrical conventions of the 1600s.

Cannons from Geneva's ancient arsenal are displayed across the street from Les Armures, 1, rue du Puits-St.-Pierre, 41-222) 310-3442, fax 41-222) 818-7113, a bustling restaurant that takes its period decor so seriously that the basement dining room is called Les Oubliettes.

Hotel Palace Via Montegrappa, 9/2-40121 39-51-220689; fax: 39-51-220689 withinc.itheet within the 17th-century Palazzo Cataldi, Hotel Palace is a veritable museum of period decor.

Kandinsky's example has led to some horrible art, to fusty abstracts that maunder about without purpose, and to the perky, cartoonish lozenges, boomeranging wedges and sleek ovoids of between-the-wars abstraction, which one can only really like in a period-decor sort of way.

In the 1964 Walt Disney movie starring Julie Andrews, the time period and decor were pushed back from the 1930's of the book illustrations to a plush Edwardian era, but Ms. Andrews's costume and bearing stayed true to Miss Shepard's drawings (with her feet back to the fifth position), and Miss Shepard received a payment from the filmmakers.

But Americans were still stuck in the worn groove of period furniture and decor.

A spectacularly restored mansion (built in 1843) houses the delightful inn, which features 15-foot ceilings, period architecture, historic decor, and plenty of southern charm.

The aristocratic house is superbly maintained and, though much of the decor is period, everything sparkles.