Saucers as well as cups, damask tablecloth, porcelain plates, silverware, and one collapsible aluminum-and-canvas chair I carried everything without complaint.
The 124 rooms and lofts are decorated with damask carpets and oak and leather panels, while the bathrooms have glass tile walls and Molton Brown amenities.
This is because in the French tradition, they would drape hugely expensive white linen damask over a simple walnut table and place a silver mirror on top.
The first President's wife to die in the White House, Letitia Tyler ended her days peacefully on September 10, 1842, holding a damask rose in her hand.
Its regal interior contains nearly thirty-eight hundred seats, a square gold proscenium, and a highly mechanized stage, as well as the largest tab curtain in the world, made of gold damask.
Livigni, a self-professed Francophile, helped conceive the bar, and along with co-owner Jonnie Houston, travelled to France to research the aesthetic they wanted to emulate, right down to the damask wallpaper.
Shortly after birth the Princess Royal had been whisked upstairs to somewhat different surroundings the attic storey, far from frescoed staircases and damask chambers to forge an intimate relationship with a mother of two named Mrs.
The painting, dated to around 1637, shows Princess Mary at the age of five or six, wearing a rich silver-laced gown and pearl head-dress, standing before a classical column and ornate gold damask curtain.
The richly coloured damask-covered walls do evoke the palaces for which many of the pictures were intended, but those palace rooms would have been furnished with mirrors and gilded console tables and the pictures hung in tiers.
Mythological and religious paintings, including the Ringling's brilliantly colored "Rest on the Flight into Egypt" (c. 1572), are testimony to Veronese's ability not only to orchestrate gorgeous textures fur, flesh, steel, damask but also to stage complex scenes like a master theater director.
WSJ: More than a Mere Colorist | Veronese | Ringling Museum of Art
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