In the living room — and in the bedrooms if the clients wanted it — the walls have been upholstered with neutral fabric, to give the surfaces both warmth and texture.
Even as we admire the overwhelming virtuosity of this 17th-century masterpiece, and luxuriate in the sheer magnificence of its painted surfaces – the warmth and fullness of those flesh tones, for example, the rendering of fabrics in crimson and gold – we also recoil in horror at the clinical brutality of its theme.
A giant "sun" loomed over a lunar catwalk surface, emanating actual warmth, much like the centrepiece of The Weather Project, Olafur Eliasson's 2003 installation at the Tate Modern.
Meanwhile and slowly I feel a is it my own warmth surfacing or the ferment of your whole body that in darkness beneath the cover is stealing bit by bit to break down that chill.
In these parts, the antihero deputy sheriff Lou Ford Casey Affleckk) tells us in his voice-over narration, surface politeness and frontier warmth conceal a seething mass of anger and resentment.
The last six summers since have seen successive record warmth and surface melt and runoff of that meltwater signalling increased mass loss from the ice sheet.
Ms. Bernstine imbues O with a convincing mixture of surface wariness and subdued warmth, but the character's affections are dispensed too casually for us to care much whether she ends up with Perry or Keith.
Kawasaki begins each work with pencil on a wood panel, her preferred surface for its "organic warmth and natural inconsistencies," according to the the gallery.
Much like the country they hail from, the strongmen of Iceland are rock-hard on the surface but full of warmth beneath.
It's an unceremonious parting, absent any of the warmth that surfaced during their hot-spring idyll.
