Word: aestheticized
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The art of tapestry weaving, which is as old as civilization itself, reached an aesthetic peak during the Renaissance, especially in the manufactory founded by the Parisian dye worker Jean Gobelin. In that era, no European palace was deemed properly palatial without its Gobelins in halls and stairways.
That theory, put into practice, made James an extraordinarily subtle and supple critic. He could extol writers like Balzac and Dickens, whose narrative methods struck him as awkward but whose stories enchanted him all the same; he could meticulously detect aesthetic flaws in the works of George Eliot and Anthony...
In a unique venture, a fledgling New York City firm called Swid Powell was formed to commission the architects to design china, crystal and silverware for the $4 billion-a-year "tabletop" market. The resulting collection of some 50 pieces was unveiled earlier this fall at Marshall Field's...
She's picking Manhattan mostly for aesthetic reasons. "They've been doing really well," she says of the 2-2 Jaspers and warns that Harvard should watch out for senior Tim Cain.
Wackerbarth and Clarke take the different tack of tacky. Since symbolic red sofas are not a literary or cinematic commonplace, they started right off with a metaphor in search of a meaning. Least Heat Moon's informative but overly journalistic commentary describes the origin of the sofa project in an...