The resulting unadorned surfaces were actually finished with a transparent, sometimes tinted layer of varnish.
Ben Stones' austere design places three overlapping timelines in the same ghostly grey flat, its unadorned surfaces evoking the brutalist concrete outside.
Consisting of 15 largish plywood boxes, it has all the telltale signs -- repeating forms, unadorned surfaces and, well, boxes -- but also manages to transcend its category.
Another reason for using flush doors was that the simple facade of the door blended in with current decorating trends that emphasized clean lines and plain, unadorned surfaces.
The simple geometric style with unadorned surfaces, designed in 1964, helped launch Gehry's career.
(Or perhaps nostalgic for the earliest buildings of those architects). Photographs of the house when it was new show the unadorned surfaces and bands of plain windows common in Bauhaus architecture but also bedrooms set back to make room for terraces topped by a continuous built-in pergola.
This fashion was partly inspired by the mistaken belief that antique sculpture had been unadorned (the painted surfaces and inlays had been lost long ago); an added attraction, especially in the case of white marble, was that an "uncoloured" state could be moralised.
Inside, the keyboard and surrounding surface are pleasantly unadorned, with ample palm rest space available and a full numpad for gaming convenience.
The tower's smooth aluminum and glass surface and crisp unadorned geometric form demonstrate Pei's adherence to the mainstream of 20th-century modern design".
The book also demonstrates that there is something like an aesthetic of bad taste, ranging from the pretentious and awful to the honestly excessive, like Gypsy Rose Lee's house, where, in a way that somehow seems entirely appropriate, not a single surface is left bare or unadorned; even the bathroom commode is encased in ornamental tole-work.
They, like Suprematists, worked mainly in an abstract style and with unadorned shapes such as straight lines, intersecting plane surfaces, and basic geometrical figures and the primary colors and neutrals.
