This sterling-silver vine ring is $222 at Richard Kidd. 7. Adelberg's favorite local hangouts are low-key.
There are perennial vines, like clematis, ivies and silver fleece vine, that mask eyesores admirably.
Silver lace vine tumbles over a rustic arch made of old wooden columns.
Perennial possibilities include fragrant Dutch honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum); silver lace vine (Polygonum aubertii); and fast-growing clematis species like sweet autumn (Clematis terniflora) and golden (C. tangutica) All of these and many more should flourish if you keep them well watered.
Also Italian Rococo, these mid-18th-century mirrors had borders of carved silver gilt vines and flowers.
Ornamental plants include the sea grape; Polygonum sachalinense (scaline); P. aubertii (silver-lace vine, or Chinese fleeceflower); P. cuspidatum (Japanese knotweed), an aggressive ground cover; Homalocladium platycladum (ribbonbush or tapeform plant); and Antigonon leptopus (coral vine).
Previously listless vines — silver lace, clematis, trumpet, grape — grasped for fences, arbors (and anything that wasn't moving) in a lush, insistent embrace.
The text is enclosed in a long rectangular decorative border composed of a blue, gold, silver, and brown stylized vine motif.
In the final zone, a flower-shop storefront, a wandering Jew intertwined its iridescent silver and purple-green vines with the hand-shaped leaves of a prayer plant.
Among painters, Chris Ofili's layerings of dot fields and poured glazes punctuated by balls of elephant dung, Beatriz Milhazes's radiating blossoms, vines and silver or gold discs, and Richmond Burton's shimmering, all-over, 7-by-12-foot pointillist field all tend toward a lush, expansive flux.
