Rooms are luxurious, with pristine white linen and polished wood floors.
Isn't it the twenties?" A beautiful and elegant young woman wearing a pristine white linen suit, whom Ricard knows (and, bafflingly, introduces as "someone I was engaged to eight years ago"), joins our table, as does, when he arrives, the good-looking man — a curator of a small museum in Colorado — she has been waiting for at the bar.
At River Ridge at Hyde Park, a community of 162 town houses by Cambridge Development and Construction, a living room includes what most empty nesters have probably only dreamed about until now: a pristine white linen sofa, obviously never used by anyone under 30.
Moving on, we were led through the men's locker room where followers dressed in pristine white linen, better known as temple garments or "Mormon underwear".
The night before the funeral, she tore out the tacky pink-satin lining that came with his coffin and sewed in its place a pristine lining of white linen.
"When people walk into a room," Miss Nunnalle said, "they want to see something fabulous, with lots of lace and cutwork". Miss Nunnalle, who receives customers in her midtown apartment, prides herself on linens in pristine condition.
But keeping your linens in pristine condition is about more than just washing them the right way — it's also about storing them strategically to best preserve the color and integrity of the fabric, especially when they spend so much of their time hidden away when another set is in rotation.
Last summer, when a Mexican-born, New York-based artist named Diego Medina made a fourteen-foot-high plywood sculpture for the New York City Department of Transportation and the Bronx River Art Center, the sculpture's pristine sides gleamed like freshly pressed linen.
If you give away linens, make sure they are in pristine condition (fabric often does not hold up unless it's been stored properly) and that they will fit today's beds or tables.
