Houston, of course, has long been home to an amalgam of styles, like the intricate play between the unassuming Menil Collection museum, designed by Renzo Piano, and the simple gray bungalow houses surrounding it; or the ornate Mediterranean campus of Rice University, an oasis tucked away within the city's seemingly endless collection of low-slung, nondescript neighborhoods.
After visiting Southampton regularly for nearly 50 years, she bought a home in the village's oldest subdivision, Rosko Place, a collection of unassuming ranch and colonial-style houses built on half-acre lots in a former potato farm.
Bianco, who was a modest and unassuming man, published a collection of short stories, La pequeña Gyaros ("Little Gyaros"), in 1932, but his reputation was established with two novellas, Sombras suele vestir (1941) and Las ratas (1943), published in English as Shadow Play, The Rats: Two Novellas by José Bianco.
This unassuming shop stocks an outstanding collection of the country's most progressive designers, from established labels like Dries Van Noten and Ann Demeulemeester to young talents like Christian Wijnants.
The story of the Vogels — the modest, unassuming, middle-class Vogels — and their collection took on mythic proportions.
Part of the house's permanent collection, to be revived every season, the move from unassuming facilitator to design classic is complete.
In her collection of essays "Sex, Art and American Culture," Camille Paglia called the unassuming yet revolutionary image "one of the greatest pictures ever taken of a woman".
For more information about each destination, check the "Offbeat" travel experts, The Getaway Mavens. 1. Examine an important collection of 20th Century Asian Art in the modest neighborhood of an unassuming town at the incomparable Maridon Museum.
This Hunter show, unassuming as it is, is by default the largest display of the Met's Islamic collection in the city.
This unassuming 18th-century box has a dull facade, but Soane filled it with a wonderfully eccentric collection of marbles and bronze sculptures, manuscripts and paintings.
