Sentence examples for to decorative from inspiring English sources

Rigorous textual arguments give way to decorative ornamentation.

French antiques-style bathroom accessories, from 'rusted' freestanding washbasins to decorative mirrors.

Ranging from intriguing to amusing to decorative, the installation is more a display of virtuosity than a coherent artistic statement.

Works will range from functional to decorative, whimsical to confrontational, representing numerous cultures and a diversity of styles.

Each of them worked in an individual style, and in addition to decorative pieces many of them designed tablewares for the subsidiary Sandvik factory.

In the works of others, accumulation tends to decorative effects, as in a snowy tapestry of white feathers by Lina Kim.

Nor, in contrast to French cathedrals of the time, does this front have much to do with the interior, where the experimental vaulting is taken to decorative extremes.

Returning to New York in 1871, Tiffany was elected an associate member of the National Academy, but, discouraged by a paucity of local art collectors, began to apply his artistic training to decorative art projects.

Yet in the last four years, his prints and ancillary products -- from greeting cards to decorative plates -- have generated more than $450 million in revenues for the Media Arts Group, the Morgan Hill, Calif., company he formed to market his work.

Other punk performers had incorporated a kind of aestheticized violence (and self-violence, especially) into their acts before, and punk fans often turned to decorative mutilation as catharsis, but I can't recall many other artists whose physical sacrifice has felt quite as generative or as essential or as giving as Iggy's.

Some brokers outfit apartments with a variety of staples perceived to be inviting — candles, fake flowers, never-read books — and the go-to decorative flourish: a black and white photo, leaning against a wall, of a lonely tree.