Sentence examples for unexpected material from inspiring English sources

When made with an unexpected material, an ordinary object can become much more.

One involves selecting a familiar form or object and recreating it on a giant scale in an unexpected material with its own charged significance.

Such finely tuned moments of tension recur throughout the complex, where new and old hang in balance, not quite colliding – an effect amplified by unexpected material contrasts.

Krauss and Union Station gave their adoring followers exactly what they wanted, but are surely capable of even more challenging and unexpected material.

"It's also a wink to after-war Italian design, and it's an unexpected material to be found in a dining room, surprising the guests".

Sometimes the forms are laid out along the floor in a line or arranged in a grid, but beyond the momentary delight of discovering a work's unexpected material, the shapes can all start to get monotonous.

"It can be folded, packaged and made from unexpected materials".

What makes it a delight, as you get up close, is Zhu's creative use of unexpected materials.

THE New York event designer David Stark transforms unexpected materials, sometimes even scraps headed for the recycling bin, into works of beauty.

Designers are using not only traditional steel but such unexpected materials as spheres of pressure-resistant glass.

For a similarly appealing bathtub at home, he suggested unexpected materials like lightweight concrete, wood, zinc, copper and carved stone.