It was an odd combination of elegant old wooden buildings and new three-story reinforced-concrete buildings.
Below, projected on the wall, is a digitised video animation of elegant korai statues (pictured above).
At her best, Ms Sobel blends together anecdote, science and history in a confection of elegant prose.
Some things are complex, but an overwhelming amount of elegant solutions with which we are aware are exceedingly simple.
Take a dip in the spa waters of elegant Baden-Baden, where Queen Victoria and friends soaked away their worries.
Those with more traditional tastes may prefer Notting Hill, where Westbourne Grove in particular has a number of elegant boutiques.
From Claridge's in London to the Villa d'Este on Lake Como, there is no shortage of elegant places to stay the world over.
Not surprisingly, given a decade of elegant, richly nuanced, hard-hitting and diverse data, this particular issue is symbolic of the future of conservation: enormously challenging.
"The animal symbolizes freedom, a combination of elegant femininity and the wild and dangerous, " says Pierre Rainero, Cartier's current director of image, style and heritage.
Business travellers hoping for better views of the city and bay should consider the cluster of elegant hotel high-rises on the northern end of Marina Bay.
Now, the streets around Bellenden boast a slew of elegant restaurants and drinking spots for the incoming Tristrams and Tabithas (and for us aspirational north Peckhamites).
"These are some of the most sophisticated launch vehicles in the world, " boasts David Triano of Shadow Components, a Lake Tahoe, Calif. manufacturer of elegant, carbon-fiber rockets.
"I do a kind of elegant hobble is the best I can manage - my left arm isn't much good yet and I've got a lot of physio still to do, " he said.
When he sets out on the road to visit the women he was dating twenty years ago, one of whom may have conceived a son with him, the movie turns into a kind of elegant alienated travelogue.
On a narrow road of mostly boxy structures, the Gouws' four-story home looks from the outside as if it could have been airlifted from Paris, with a stone-colored facade, neat rows of elegant windows and ivy all over the fence.
Although McQueen's Givenchy collections were showy and won hype, French purists were quick to say they were in no way a continuation of the elegant stylistic output of Hubert de Givenchy, the man who dressed Audrey Hepburn.
Since the 1960s, the Dutch have been the purveyors of an elegant, attacking style of play that has rarely delivered trophies, but has delighted soccer fans across the globe.
The Italian duo, who took over the house in 2008, sees their task less as a reinvention of the elegant Valentino DNA and more of an evolution.
Mr Brown is a source of neither elegant Whartonian syntax, nor the serene reflections of his closer kin, Ernest Hemingway.
The former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nation' received the "Casey Medal of Honor" in the ballroom of the elegant Park Hyatt Hotel in Washington filled with nearly two hundred of her friends and admirers (including, among other distinguished guests the Chairman of the House International Relations Committee, Rep. Benjamin A. Gilman (R-NY)).
While from the ends of their elegant stalks pineapples nodded encouragingly, sweet potatoes and yams peeped from the earth, and great hands of bananas reached down to them.
Scrap the mind-numbingly complex, loophole-filled, savings-averse code, advises the editor-in-chief of this magazine, in favor of one elegant, clear rate.
Barca's winner came with 10 minutes to play, and was equally unrepresentative of the elegant play usually associated with the club.
Themes and preoccupations course from Banville to his dark brother, stripped of some of their elegant attire, but not transformed completely.
Or picking a lock with a credit card after I'd broken the latch in a toilet stall of an elegant Roman restaurant.
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Exemplified by Apple, and the success of their elegant products, design-thinking is proving to be more and more the competitive edge for entrepreneurs.
The overall interface of ThisLife is elegant, laying thousands of images out in a browse-friendly library that is organized left to right by time.
Cascading velvet curtains, marquee lights, distressed hardwood and grand staircases set the illusion of an elegant 1920s theatre, while multiple stages spotlighting feather-headressed burlesque dancers complete the vintage spectacle.
These were relatively unsophisticated at the start, but South African boffins soon developed a range of more elegant products--among them explosives, a nice fit for the mining industry.
Although some of these elegant places still exist and still produce tremendous cuisine, Fine Dining now refers more to the main event: the food on the plate.
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