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She has worked in Los Angeles, [1] where she was inspired by outsider artists, and throughout New Mexico, in Roswell, Albuquerque, and southwestern New Mexico. [2] Magennis has tiled the interiors and exteriors of homes, including her own, [1] [2] [5] with tiles, [5] pennies, [1] and mosaics, [2] creating a "transformation of nonart materials into aestheticized objects."
Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, 548. Italy has the richest concentration of Late Antique and medieval mosaics in the world. Although the art style is especially associated with Byzantine art and many Italian mosaics were probably made by imported Greek-speaking artists and craftsmen, there are surprisingly few significant mosaics remaining in the core Byzantine territories.
The table had three curved legs, each with a stylized lion-paw foot and a large ring at the top. Nearby were the remains of another fancy table, called the “Mosaic Table” by Young because of its boldly inlaid table top. The top was made of boxwood boards, joined edge to edge and inlaid with strips of yew in a pattern of squares and crosses.
Victorian design is widely viewed as having indulged in a grand excess of ornament. The Victorian era is known for its interpretation and eclectic revival of historic styles mixed with the introduction of Asian and Middle Eastern influences in furniture, fittings, and interior decoration .
The innovation of Morton Goldsholl Associates wasn't expressed only in art per se - for example in 1953 the firm designed "a new line of modern [children's] furniture that was designed to 'grow'" with the child, [21] and was awarded a patent in 1985 for the invention of an "Image processor and method for use in making photographic prints ...
Panels of elaborately scrolling "seaweed" marquetry of box or holly contrasting with walnut appeared on table tops, cabinets, and long-case clocks. At the end of the 17th century, a new influx of French Huguenot craftsmen went to London , but marquetry in England had little appeal in the anti-French, more Chinese-inspired high-style English ...
Butcher block counter top. Wooden countertops can come in a variety of designs ranging from butcher block to joined planks to single wide stave. Wood is considered to be the most eco-friendly option when it comes to choosing a kitchen countertop as wood is a renewable resource.
Lazaroff's other designs gave included now-former Wolfgang Puck Cafés in the United States, Canada and Japan featuring a signature Café design of triangular fused glass sconces, colorful geometric mosaic floors and walls, and Lazaroff's custom “pizza chairs” for which she won, with Wolfgang Puck, the Hot Concept award from Nation’s ...