Sentence examples for tabletop models from inspiring English sources

Both are shots of elaborate tabletop models, constructed by the artist, of suburban-style neighborhoods in upstate New York.

Large color photographs render tabletop models of suburban subdivisions — in Dutchess County, New York, we are assured — from low-flying-airplane points of view.

Tabletop models of the Eiffel Tower are strung with tiny Christmas lights, and dozens of pastel boxes that once held Ladurée's famous macaroons line the shelves.

Architecture itself becomes a primary subject in Erik Benson's urban landscapes, collaged from line-thin strips of dried acrylic; in Geraldine Lau's aerial view of Yankee Stadium, made from bits of colored adhesive tape; and in Micki Watanabe's meticulously constructed tabletop models of library rooms.

Based in California, and now at midcareer, he is best known for his noirish "Abandoned Houses" series from the 1990's, tabletop models of ideal California-modern homes, made for the poor, bought by the rich, riddled with bullet holes and besmirched with graffiti, but still standing, candidates for renewal.

His three monumental sculptures (plus a pair of tabletop models) accordingly communicate no-nonsense industrial force — but not without a certain ponderous whimsy: a sail-shaped object set in a circular track responds — at least theoretically — to breezes; its companion features swooping spirals and a bannerlike panel.

A tripod, even a small tabletop model, can still make setting up shots, and holding their composition, much easier.

Mr. Kelley developed his ideas for the set by building a tabletop model from balsa wood and wire.

Olga Bergmann's circular tabletop model, "National Park," is populated by tiny figures and hooked up to a motor.

If you can't make it to Atlanta, the Noguchi Museum in Queens has a tabletop model of the playground.

She said she first learned of the plans during a meeting where she saw the tabletop model of the new campus.