The staff are really nice and the atmosphere is relaxed and a tad refined: big leather seats, yummy bar snacks.
The city's industries are chiefly concerned with processing those products and include meatpacking, lard refining, leather tanning, shipbuilding, and the manufacturing of textiles, metallurgic goods, electrical and communications equipment, plastics, pharmaceuticals, perfume, beer, and chemicals.
Parchment is a greatly refined form of leather.
The renovated rooms include "refined" materials like leather, cashmere and silk, in shades of taupe, champagne and plum.
Now it has been refined, with tufted leather banquettes in the ground-floor barroom and the second-floor dining room, where service promises to be more polished.
Its ode to leather, refined to the highest level, was a powerful statement from the designer Stefano Pilati, who seemed, with this autumn/winter 2012 collection, to hit his stride — not least of all with the silvered strips on shoes.
Camilla Staerk, a Danish designer with a downtown base (she opened a shop last year on Mulberry Street), refined her tough-girl aesthetic by treating leather in a way that was both sleek and elegant.
The look: Refined but cozy, from the collarless camel coat, leather shell and jodphur pants that opened the show, to the cream, oversized, cable knit sweater worn over..
For instance, you could view all clothing with "Color: Black," and refine that with "Material: Leather," or by designer or by occasion.
Otherwise, my test car's interior, with its black and cream leather upholstery, was attractive, roomy and comfortable, though it was not as refined as the Camry, the Accord or a relative newcomer, the Mazda 6.
