The stools, for example, are beautiful pieces but they also have a utilitarian style that wouldn't look out of place in a workshop.
Men, in both speech and text, incline toward a briefer, more utilitarian style, the researchers say -- a style they variously term instrumental, functional or transactional.
"Just be aware, it's not a cruise ship," I warned my brood, remembering the utilitarian styling of the ferries of my childhood.
Kimmel says he was inspired by the utilitarian style of the Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning: "He was a man's man.
Since returning to Sydney after graduating last year, he has developed products that he hopes will prove as enduring as the Anglepoise and Model A, while sharing their utilitarian style and method of construction.
"The Office" was having none of that on Thursday night, when it closed its nine-season run on NBC with an episode that was in keeping with the show's modest, utilitarian style.
To use the space as a bedroom, renovations would be required to move the washer and dryer to the unfinished basement and to alter the room's utilitarian style.
IT was once home to a technology company, a sprawling one-and-two-story building in a boxy utilitarian style that could be called industrial modern, a beige stone and concrete "L" on 107 acres of land.
But apart from the aesthetic revelations of my journey, what became clear was that despite its short life (1919-1933), Bauhaus influence has been all-pervasive, bringing us white walls well before Minimalism, flatpack furniture before Ikea, utilitarian style shops before Muji, not to speak of chairs without legs.
In contrast to the utilitarian style of many of its neighbors, this lushly landscaped house is thoughtfully designed and well integrated with the outdoors.
