Here in this cool, traditionally tiled interior, the pastel de nata reaches its apotheosis.
Munch also created a lithograph of "The Scream" in 1895, the same year he executed the pastel auctioned on Wednesday.
The clean-shaven gentleman on the couch, with the excellent posture, the pastel golf shirt, and that strangely chaste yet fiery look in his eye?
The pastel is being sold by Norwegian businessman Petter Olsen, whose father is thought to have been a friend and patron of the famed artist.
From the Chrysler Building in New York to the pastel hotels of Miami Beach and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Art Deco reshaped architecture in the years before World War II -- though the term wasn't coined until the 1960s, drawn from the name of the 1925 Paris decorative-arts exhibition that popularized the style.
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Lest you scoff at my predilection for elementary-level reading (the book is rated for ages four to eight), I beg you to look past the pastel illustrations and sing-songy cadence of the writing and see this book for what it is: a beautiful script about parenthood, a poignant parable about life and death, a testimony to when the roles of child and parent become blurry.
Wayne Kong Yuk-shan, a branch officer at an Aeon office in the Central business district, says some 100 people, a number of them male, queued every day to apply for the pastel-pink card - and choose their free gift from a selection of Hello Kitty appliances. (These days, the giveaways are Kitty cup noodles and a cushion.) "Hong Kong people are very influenced by Japanese culture, so they like Kitty, " says Kong.
We gaze with astonishment at the vine-clad buildings, the riotous window boxes, the bobbing pastel fishing boats and the vast medieval fortress at the centre of town.
Except for the surreal pastel colors and a high degree of abstraction in the rendering of massed tree trunks and foliage, there was little in the canvas to suggest the earlier master.
Crew men looked a bit more staid, despite the pair of pastel purple pants that popped up halfway down the line.
Sean Lennon found the pages of pastel chalk drawings and hand-written text it in a closet one day at home and finally prevailed upon his mum to allow its dissemination.
With the saxophonists Gigi Gryce and Charlie Rouse, he formed a particularly interesting front line, with the tonal colours of the horns offering a range of pastel hues as well as the expected brilliance.
You can also take a sartorial cue from the Italians and wear pastel colored suits.
Searle drug fortune, bought the ethereal Edgar Degas pastel "Landscape with Smokestacks, " a view across a windswept countryside, in 1987.
Jessica Jahn has dressed the Egyptians in sculptural black-and-gold hats and breastplates for the royals, and the Israelites in flowing pastel-hued robes.
The picture -- a vivid pastel, produced in 1895 -- is owned by Petter Olsen, a member of the Olsen shipping dynasty.
This was followed by large-scale pastel drawings on the walls of his house and by sculpture in a number of different media.
Well, yes, but now you can bring the same white space and pastel shades to your own internet footprint, courtesy of free infographic web app Vizify.
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"The delicate shape and pretty pastel colors make it perfect for writing recipe cards, checks to my psychologist (I'm seeing him for a case of the hysterics), and tracking my monthly cycle, " wrote one reviewer.
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But the Louvre, with its pastel pink decor and excellent sweet trolley, survives to this day, its genteel ambience unchanged since 1911, when Einstein, then a visiting professor, would pop in for a piece of strudel.
Japanese designer Tadashi Shoji already has several high-profile fans: Actress Octavia Spencer, who is nominated for an Academy Award for her role in The Help, has worn his pastel gowns to nearly every red carpet appearance this year.
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In one pastel, Degas evoked the thrilling height of the suspended figure with sketchy indications of the building's iron framework in vivid blue, as in the painting, but he experimented briefly with the position of the feet, pushing the front leg and the pointed foot, in its decorative boot, forward to create an emphatic vertical gesture in the lower part of the image.
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The Edison (960 Ocean Drive), The Beacon (720 Ocean Drive), The Chesterfield (855 Collins) and The Mercury (100 Collins) are four hotels worth donning Miami Vice pastel for, although film buffs will want to save their adoration for The Carlyle (1250 Ocean Drive, at 13th street), where the classic gangster flick Scarface was shot.
Available in pastel pink or blue, the cute player is USB powered with a 2GB NAND Flash memory.
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One of these Dancing Jello displays had always caused my 500-MHz PC to go into a spasms, freezing everything on the screen except an indistinct cloud of pastel that shifted position once every five seconds.
Proponents of the new measure say that the cost of living in Santa Fe is a fifth above the national average (blame all those pastel Tex-Mex bars and overpriced Hopi sofa-throws), but wages are 18% below it.
Every other girl in the class turned up in a sea of pastel-coloured nylon.
Its waterfront is flanked on one side by a row of pastel-hued homes and on the other by a long strip of sandy beach.
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