Sentence examples for utilitarian materials from inspiring English sources

Despite its utilitarian materials, Mr. Ridge said, it was "surprisingly comfortable".

It remains a private residence, but the innovative little house that Schindler designed for himself in Hollywood in 1921, a series of rooms made of cheap, utilitarian materials (concrete, canvas, composition board) with sliding walls that open onto gardens has been turned into a museum house.

Most people in China still think of bamboo as a utilitarian material.

At Amaridian, a SoHo gallery specializing in African design, she admired the brightly colored Zenzulu Lace platters on the wall, which employ a utilitarian material — PVC-coated copper wire more commonly used for telephone lines — to create an artistic statement.

"[Ai] has taken the familiar and utilitarian material of metal fencing, which has many forms, as a basic motif.

In putting together his jewels collection, according to a text accompanying the exhibit, Dalí said his designs were "of pure beauty, without utility but executed marvelously," and were "appreciated in a time when the primary emphasis appeared to be upon the utilitarian and the material".

The winner of the 2011 Turner Prize was environmental artist Martin Boyce, whose atmospheric sculptural installations drew inspiration from design history and attained the sensibility of the natural landscape through the human-made elements of utilitarian objects and sleek materials.

The genius of the old scribbler was to see how often the sheerly irrational intruded upon the material and utilitarian world of our great-grandfathers.

She argued that totalitarian regimes, through their pursuit of raw political power and their neglect of material or utilitarian considerations, had revolutionized the social structure and made contemporary politics nearly impossible to predict.

There is also the related debate between idealism and materialism: European idealism emphasized the subtle meaningfulness of local configurations of thought and value over against the practical focus on utilitarian analysis of health, material well-being, and survival.

"When you say fan, people think of an outmoded item or an utilitarian article made of disposable materials," he said during an interview.