Apart from the case, and a utilitarian table and chair, and, maybe, the suitcase the display arrived in, the booth is entirely empty.
The props for this production of "The Tempest" are simple: a rope tied with plastic bottles and trash, like a line barnacled with flotsam, bright with sad gaiety, a utilitarian table, and a few chairs.
The décor is no-frills (utilitarian tables, fluorescent lights, ceiling fans), but the service is warm and gracious.
There are utilitarian tables inside with red and white plastic cloths and large containers of ketchup, but many of the customers eat as they wander home in their school uniform.
JERUSALEM — At first glance it seems a straightforward if animated photograph of Israeli soldiers in a mess hall: uniformed young men chatting, pouring, laughing, smoking at a set of utilitarian tables bearing metal bowls and nondescript food.
Brown walls are occasionally interrupted by posters of Hindu goddesses that have seen better days and the lighting is harsh, illuminating rows of wooden chairs tucked under small, utilitarian tables.
The house is furnished for people whose most important reference point is the land: rugged carpet, a couple of bottomed-out sofas, a utilitarian coffee table, and a woodstove (which was blazing on the day that I visited, in early fall — Sublette County regularly registers some of the lowest temperatures in the forty-eight states).
By Andrea Thompson August 12, 2008 Lunch in Midtown tends to extremes: either utilitarian — steam tables, pre-made sandwiches — or expense-account elegant — think the Four Seasons or DB Bistro.
"These are proper men," the professor's friend said once we were inside and seated among the utilitarian plastic tables.
From a spare, bare (except for the carpet) box that seated six with highly utilitarian chairs and two tables, and the library's patented peace and quiet, the transformation is dramatic.
The performers shifted positions periodically, moving from chair to chair on a sparse, utilitarian set of folding tables with nameplates, so that someone who had been reading lines from the interrogator would quickly become the accused.
