In Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York's epicenter of ornamental excess, the Polizzotto family has used the same elaborate "Nutcracker Suite" tableau in its yard for more than a decade.
(The dad was actually disappointed to learn that most of the medallions, once a bit of ornamental excess whose point was to be treated disdainfully, have vanished; they ought to be restored).
Meanwhile, in France the style had already begun to decline by the 1750s when it came under attack from critics for its triviality and ornamental excesses, and by the 1760s the new, more austere movement of Neoclassicism began to supplant the Rococo in France.
Art of the Almoravid period is most noted for its sobriety and puritanism after the ornamental excesses of the Umayyads.
The band strips away its rococo excess on its latest album, "Venus Doom".
On a plummeting hillside, San Cayetano Church looms dramatically, a hymn to Rococo excess.
Architects of the Enlightenment saw neo-Classicism as a reaction to rococo excess.
Leave behind such reminders of rococo excess, head across town and fast-forward to the 1920's, when the local design aesthetic had undergone its own French revolution.
By the time Eliezer's child, the author Nomi Eve, appears in "The Family Orchard," the novel has lost some of its inventive force, and its rococo excess has imploded.
While many of them will use their time in Madrid to visit its temples of modernist cooking — the high wire fusion of Diverxo, the rococo excess of Ramón Freixa, the extravagant elegance of Sergi Arola — some will inevitably crave something simpler, more traditional.
Sanz has cleared away the rococo excess that cluttered his music, though his new songs are paradoxically more complex.
