He quickly formed a band with some of his classmates, saw they were untalented little rich kids with pristine Les Pauls, broke up the band, recorded a solo album alone at some cabin in the woods, got addicted to glue, then got a call from his former bandmates for a reunion tour.
Early on he received critical acclaim for the Smith House (1965 67) in Darien, Connecticut, the first of his so-called white buildings, which clearly built upon the pristine Modernism of Le Corbusier's work in the 1920s and '30s.
Twenty years ago, a pristine 1959 Gibson Les Paul might have sold for ten thousand dollars; today, it can fetch four hundred thousand.
Le Bec Fin, Le Cirque, Lutèce, Le Bernardin, the pristine white traiteur in SoHo where the woman in a white blouse and black pencil skirt served tiny, perfectly roasted chickens for a splurge, the elaborate dacquoise with cognac buttercream I was asked to develop for a cookbook, the chic coq au vin we labored over for French Club — this was French cuisine!
The pristine beauty of Juan-les-Pins on France's Riviera, for example, was made famous in books like F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, but 80 years on, its natural charms are all but gone.
That seemed to me like too much home and not enough motor, though I could understand the appeal of a pristine lakeside campsite like Thonnance-les-Moulins.
An albumen print, circa 1858, by Cuvelier, "Le Sully," shows nature not pristine and orderly as it is in many Adams photographs, but unruly, almost shellshocked.
Deep in Campania's Alto Casertano region, Le Campestre showcases the beauty and nature of this pristine area just north of Naples and the Amalfi Coast.
"Vive le roi!" the crowd chanted as he climbed out of his pristine white Land Rover, emblazoned on the side with "ROYAUME DU MAROC".
"Vive le roi!" the crowd chanted as he climbed out of his pristine white Land Rover, emblazoned on the side with "ROYAUME DU MAROC". There were speeches in French, Spanish, German, Maghrebi Arabic, and Tashelhit, the local dialect.
