She began to make frequent trips to the Museum of Natural History across from Central Park, where she would wander, absent-mindedly, through its halls lined with vivid glass-panelled dioramas.
The room was dim and freezing, lacking any vivid stained glass or theatrical velvet.
Overt references to Cristóbal Balenciaga came in the stand-away tailoring and in a vivid stained glass window pattern of Spanish religious figures.
Jewelry pieces include a silver necklace that suspends elongated seed-pod shapes ($400); and vivid colored glass in round and square tiles on arc-shaped chains ($36).
The exhibition has more than its share of show-stoppers (including a large tapestry mandala synthesizing Tibetan imagery with Mongolian craft), but it's the domestic objects — a delicate cup and saucer in vivid blue glass, a porcelain pillow crafted to resemble a tiny theatre — that really enthrall.
She says the simultaneity of seeing vivid stained glass colors and smelling fruity food odors was perplexing "in a good way".
After Kandinsky's early chivalric fantasies and landscapes with their vivid stained-glass colors on the rotunda's first level, the compositions explode into centrifugal abstractions and semi-abstractions that echo Wright's plunging space-for-space's-sake rotunda.
Mr. Stiller marveled at his character's new home, at the ash wood paneling and parquet floors, the vivid stained-glass murals and, most particularly, at the shimmering blue and green tiles of the four fireplaces.
Now we're normally edgy as fuck mate, but the medieval parish is bit of a sight to behold, especially when full of blushing lights, strobing and refracting from the appropriately vivid stained-glass windows, but oi, don't tell the lads we said that alright?
Although the party was dark, I had a vivid impression of a glass roof of cathedral dimensions and a tree in an enormous pot standing in the living room.
