What object from this heap of bric-a-brac most inspires you?
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There is no television or computer, no bills, papers or bric-a-brac.
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Birchbark Books, Erdrich's tiny shop, is crowded with art, native crafts, and bric-a-brac.
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" Frost answered, "The trouble with you, Wallace, is that you write about bric-a-brac.
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The rotation is the rotation, an unsightly mosaic fashioned from other clubs' discarded bric-a-brac.
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A gallery upstairs is more orderly, with 10 glass cases of booze-related bric-a-brac.
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Wandering through the museum was like being in a large, bric-a-brac-filled department store.
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The lavish apartment is full of hidden gems, intermingling with Buhl's bric-a-brac and personal items.
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In the bric-a-brac section, she spotted a pressed glass pitcher with six glasses for £8.
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HELP WANTED: Stately home seeks caretaker for priceless collection of antiquities, pictures, bronzes and bric-a-brac.
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Some people fill their homes with bric-a-brac, occasionally tipping over into the dangerous realm of hoarding.
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She is also wading through the bric-a-brac she has received from guests and fans of the hotel.
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A woman offered a bicycle for $15 one evening and bric-a-brac was laid out on the sidewalks.
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"It's just sort of bric-a-brac, a private mess, a little surrealistic, with a nice surprise," he said.
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This bric-a-brac collection of ephemera, campaign signs, and gag gifts runs the gamut from haunting to horrible.
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"It's this big stretch of dusty road, and people normally sell bric-a-brac and weird, gross things," she says.
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The risk for ambitious, eclectic exhibitions like this one is that they can end up resembling bric-a-brac shops.
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But there are also local ceramics, collections of vintage "Peanuts" bric-a-brac and an ever-changing mix of ephemera.
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A framed King Ying Low menu sits above the sticker-covered bar, anonymous among the multitude of bric-a-brac.
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The slightly elevated view of this bric-a-brac-filled landscape is claustrophobic, since the horizon is not clearly defined.
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The text is a clip job, consisting almost entirely of excerpts from Toscanini's letters and other documentary bric-a-brac.
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These finished works, of course, leave no apparent sign of the bric-a-brac involved in the process of their making.
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Customers wander among endless rows of sofas, testing the cushions and examining the other wares, from bric-a-brac to bicycles.
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The studio sets are something like Sirk's playground, filled with bric-a-brac allowing the director a number of antic juxtapositions.
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His shelves were covered in patriotic bric-a-brac: presidential biographies, flags and awards earned by his son, a civil servant.
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In 2005, she beat the macho Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, a man known for considering women's emancipation as "Gedöns" — bric-a-brac.
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Buy lots of cheap trinkets — bric-a-brac, if you will — and put it all wherever, like a flourishing garden of bullshit.
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Many matriarchs created a sacred kind of space, a place where a family's story was told via artfully arranged bric-a-brac.
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A writer who lived and loved through the Cuban Revolution, Luis Vargas now sells bric-a-brac that no one seems to buy.
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The farmhouse, built in 1783, has been restored, and it's full of Melville bric-a-brac: Maria's sideboard, Lizzie's sewing stand, Herman's harpoon.
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"I visited his studio and was completely fascinated by this universe he's created from little objects and bric-a-brac," Ms. Josenhans said.
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Rothman's Department Store, a bric-a-brac shop that has sold everything from thumbtacks to toasters since 1918, has moved down the block.
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On Saturdays, Plainpalais's locally famous flea market overflows with antiques, clothes, jewelry, and bric-a-brac, with plenty of treasures to be hunted.
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In the main space, you'll find midcentury furniture and bric-a-brac — namely, Victorian cloche jars, African feathered headdresses and '60s-inspired ceramics.
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On Saturdays, Plainpalais's locally famous flea market overflows with antiques, clothes, jewelry, and bric-a-brac, with plenty of treasures to be hunted.
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The greatest testaments to the pair's technical skill are their various polyurethane facsimiles of studio bric-a-brac, produced between 1991 and 2013.
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The works are precarious arrangements strung together with rainbow-colored shoelaces and carefully curated collections of pop culture artifacts and household bric-a-brac.
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The room is cluttered with the old man's books, tools and bric-a-brac, objects that fill Finn's mind with fragmented memories of him.
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She walked through aisles of bric-a-brac and nodded to a deer's head similar to one in her picture of his cluttered work table.
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The women occupied a small compound off a canyon road near Beverly Hills that was hidden behind a wooden fence decorated with eclectic bric-a-brac.
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No cross-stitched pillows here; no clothes, unless you count waders; no discarded chinaware—not much, in short, of the usual junk-shop bric-a-brac.
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The Pinduoduo app's main page is a bottomless cascade of groceries, fast fashion, household sundries and electronic bric-a-brac — all carrying wildly improbable price tags.
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Although it was very cold, some stallholders were out and about with vintage furniture, cowboy boots, and all the bric-a-brac you could ever want.
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The collecting fever snowballed with weekend trips to auctions in Connecticut, where he would fill his Country Squire station wagon with pictures, furniture and bric-a-brac.
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The House features recordings, period furniture, and all manner of bric-a-brac from the jazzman's life, but it's the Jetsons-era kitchen that charms the most.
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ROME — Hear the name Old Curiosity Shop, and images of Dickensian England with odd taxidermy and piles of fusty bric-a-brac will likely come to mind.
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One of the troublesome pair was captured almost at once; the other climbed on a high ledge and showered the policemen and firemen with bric-a-brac.
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Common rooms are painted in earthy oranges and yellows and furnished in the sweet spot around four parts tasteful-antique for every one part bric-a-brac.
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Such references include Blake's gender-fluid bear-bison furry persona, Gnomen; the bric-a-brac of their sculptures; cartoonish floating heads, eyeballs, holes, and phalluses with sadomasochistic undertones.
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It is authentically inauthentic, sporting the same menus and wall-mounted bric-a-brac as hundreds of other outposts of Mr Martin's empire, yet curiously honest about the fact.
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Yoga also became a multibillion-dollar business, spawning apparel companies like Lululemon, a vast cottage industry of studios and teacher trainings, and a kaleidoscope of yogi bric-a-brac.
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There are white subway tiles, vintage photographs, a chalkboard menu and a selection of bric-a-brac assembled by an owner, Jala Alsoufi, a recent architecture and psychology graduate.
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While the team's pitching rotation was cobbled together with bric-a-brac from across the baseball spectrum, just about every aspect of the Cubs' offense seemed all but preordained.
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It's a big book that veers in and out of the lives of its idiosyncratic characters, occasionally verging, in its bric-a-brac of historical oddball detail, on the precious.
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Many of Nevelson's drawings imitate, in the planes of that two-dimensional medium, the way that her sculptural assemblages create a sense of integrated elegance out of bric-a-brac material.
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Spread across almost every inch of Steve Bauer's lawn is the bric-a-brac of an ambitious yard sale: old books, kitchen utensils, a candy dispenser, camping items and used clothing.
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"I'm not a hoarder, but I have lots of sentimental objects, bric-a-brac, books," said Mr. Le Hay, who makes use of several large storage trunks to hide the overflow.
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When I get back, all the notes, receipts, pamphlets, business cards, matchbooks and bric-a-brac I've collected go onto my coffee table, spilling onto the floor, and I write, slowly.
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Several Washington Redskins are drawing attention for their frugal lives, which include driving old cars — in one case, a very old car — and sharing cheap apartments furnished with bric-a-brac furniture.
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James J. Fenton's rough-hewed set design deftly disguises one of the thick columns, which can be problematic, as a tree trimmed in Joseph Cornell-style boxes full of bric-a-brac.
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Pinterest's offices in San Francisco display the sort of cutesy, self-referential bric-a-brac that's common at start-ups — a giant statue of a pushpin made of Legos, a Pinterest surfboard.
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Saar has collected these washing machine precursors for almost 60 years, incorporating them into bric-a-brac compositions of salvaged historical memories that recall a similar aesthetic championed by assemblage sculptor Joseph Cornell.
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Since serving its first batch of deep-fried wings doused in a "special sauce" in 1964, the bar has seemingly filled up every square inch of its original location with bric-a-brac.
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Like many of Adonis's long poems, "Concerto al-Quds" is a bric-a-brac construction, stuffed with quotations from medieval sources—particularly Arab historians of Jerusalem—and also from religious texts and modern fiction.
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The Macleans' private living room was cluttered with modern bric-a-brac while, just below, tourists tramped about in the stately banquet hall looking at clan paraphernalia and trying to locate a public toilet.
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Mr. Carroll — a short, bearded man whose appearance and personality was more pirate than cowboy — sat in the middle of this bric-a-brac in his recliner, chatting with a worker he called Shaggy.
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Each element, taken in isolation, refers to a shattered organism, and the sculptures are put together as though an algorithm had procedurally assembled the parts of a body from operating room bric-a-brac.
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In the original, the house of JF Sebastian, who designed the replicants, is filled with dolls and childish automatons, and the lab where the androids' eyes were "made" is littered with mechanical bric-a-brac.
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Between the speaker's direct reckonings with his grief ("I thought of you again tonight, thin as a rake") are oceans of verbal bric-a-brac, tickles to the ear and intellect, but hard to grasp.
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To distract Sophie, they permitted her to rummage through the bric-a-brac in the drawers of a 17th-century Chinese cabinet that stood in the living room of their two-story 1920s-era house.
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It was cluttered with several thousand pieces of vintage bric-a-brac, among them an array of analog floor-indicator dials (both "half-moon" and "full moon"), which summoned memories of old-movie elevator scenes.
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The explanation, she claims, for the midcentury bric-a-brac strewn around inside the the house is that "The Enriquez family bought in the mid-century," so there's no reason to think that was murder memorabilia.
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In return for an extra in-game costume or some cheaply made bric-a-brac, a publisher can net thousands of sales ahead of (potentially negative) reviews, and maybe in the process make extra cash off merchandise.
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It's not a restaurant in three dimensions — the service, while skilled, is a bit anonymous, and the interior is a hodgepodge of expensive, subtle design and bric-a-brac that might have been ordered from a catalog.
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Despite the tawdry erotic intrigue, the movie's plot is less compelling than its strongly controlled mise-en-scène, which, with its abundance of creaky machines and fusty bric-a-brac, evokes a 19th-century cabinet of curiosities.
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"It was opened by my father in 1949," she told me as I rummaged through a charmingly cluttered collection of old postcards, Dominican cigars and bric-a-brac, which included a big cardboard cutout of George Burns.
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For all its Egyptian bric-a-brac, however, "Gods" is largely set in a place resembling an earthquake-prone, Caribbean megaresort populated by men attired in leather frocks and women who favor studded bikini tops and snug pareus.
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As I sat in the nurse's office, I watched a few of the staff members clear out their desks, filling boxes with books, "thank you" notes from patients, and the general bric-a-brac that workspaces inevitably accrue.
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You'll also encounter bric-a-brac that's not quite as functional — but equally as covetable — like a sushi-printed silk scarf from Tofu, as well as Goodstuph's tongue-in-cheek ERP and Housing and Development Board (HDB) coin pouches.
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The company's stew of pseudo avant-garde futurism and bric a brac, DIY amusement park on acid brand of immersive entertainment raked in $7 million in 2017, according to a May 2018 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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The room was stuffed with Pompeo-related bric-a-brac — a poster from an oil-supply company Pompeo had led; a gumball machine honoring the Wichita State Shockers; a drawing executed by Pompeo himself, in crayon, at age 153.
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Since guns don't usually wear out, they end up being transferred from one generation to the next along with all the other junk and bric-a-brac that moves from grandpa's garage to dad's basement and then into some nephew's garage.
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Lighted with a blend of nearly surgically bright whites mixed with blue accents by Jill Nagle, the otherwise stark space features a marvelous array of bric-a-brac that engages the eye even as the tricky play at times eludes logic.
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Last July 1, at the start of free agency, what is known (with a giggle) as the Knicks Brain Trust agreed to sign a baker's dozen of power forwards and shooting guards and various bric-a-brac and pronounced themselves pleased.
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The home that she shared with her long-term invalid mother has become — with its bric-a-brac, bounty of old shampoo bottles and stacks of magazines — a showcase for their obsessive, compulsive behavior and an overly obvious manifestation of Doris's struggles.
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Stroll through Motoko Town, as the aging arcade is called, to poke around bric-a-brac shops filled floor-to-ceiling with 2475th-century computers, for example, or kitschy belt buckles, or, somewhat disturbingly, military uniforms from the United States and Germany.
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"If you go see the Picasso estate and tell them, 'These 271 works from Picasso fell from the ceiling,' or, 'I found them at a bric-a-brac market,' no one will believe you," Mr. Neuer said in a telephone interview on Saturday.
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Her Theosophical Society was based in an apartment on West 47th Street less than a five-minute walk from Ms. Sinclair's place, filled with what an 1877 Times article called "elegant and curious bric-a-brac," like a miniature crocodile swinging from the ceiling.
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It's a fair bet that the Obama Presidential Center will be a heady mélange of hagiographic biography, refurbished campaign commercials, cultish left-wing bric-a-brac, and requisite paeans to perceived achievements and ballyhooed pseudo-events—all touting Barack Obama as a "transformative" president.
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Oliver Croy, an Austrian artist who discovered 387 homemade building models in a bric-a-brac shop in Vienna in 1993, bought them, lived with them in a 131-square-foot apartment for several years and is no longer collecting, having skirted its edges.
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Like some delirious DIY museum, every part of the two-story, 10,000-square-foot building was filled with city-salvaged bric-a-brac, the whole thing powered by dozens of snaking electrical cords, which are now being considered as a possible cause of the fire.
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So they opened this ambient and refreshingly sedate spot with a glass bar filled with bric-a-brac, which today is still shaking up a serious collection of classic and signature cocktails — including a near-perfect Negroni — to an increasingly cocktail fluent local crowd.
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This seems to be what Eckhaus and Latta do best — sift through the stimuli and detritus of present-day reality and narrate it back to us, speaking in the jagged-edged, bric-a-brac, everyday language in which many of us are, unwittingly, already fluent.
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Lastly, Amigh moves the viewer through meaning by creating shapes that are themselves visual puzzles and bric-a-brac such as the collection of bits and pieces that come to resemble a wasps' nest in "There is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream" (2017).
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"Bowlaway" (her third novel, and first in 18 years) is jumpier, twitchier, a big book that veers in and out of the lives of its idiosyncratic characters, creating what McCracken calls a "genealogy," occasionally verging, in its bric-a-brac of historical oddball detail, on the precious.
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With its suave aesthetic—all polished upcycled wood, dim lighting, and artfully arrayed bric-a-brac—The Night Rooster would feel right at home in London or Manhattan, were it not for the fact that the concise cocktail menu draws deeply on the fruits and flavors of Indonesia.
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Assembled with the involvement of the band's members—which today means Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts—it is a vast collection of eccentric and at times surreal bric-a-brac, from old guitars, clothes, and vinyl covers to personal diaries, letters and lyric books.
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Among the usual wigmaking bric-a-brac are items specific to her Orthodox Jewish clientele: black hair tightly coiled around sticks that are baked to make curly, prosthetic payot (the traditional Orthodox side locks); a head form with a fluffy white beard for an Orthodox man with alopecia.
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The works in the show range from a 2450 ink self-portrait of a ponderous 280-year-old Currin, to his 219 oil "Newspaper Couple," in which an elderly man and woman smile at each other serenely despite a jumble of bric-a-brac balanced surreally on their heads.
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The works in the show range from a 2450 ink self-portrait of a ponderous 280-year-old Currin, to his 219 oil "Newspaper Couple," in which an elderly man and woman smile at each other serenely despite a jumble of bric-a-brac balanced surreally on their heads.
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Many of Gallace's paintings feature scenes that are disconcertingly close to images common on postcards, in calendars, and in innumerable amateur paintings — the kind of local flavor, Sunday-painter paintings that one might well find among the bric-a-brac and musty furniture in a Cape Cod antique shop.
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They decided to re-create onstage a version of the upstate town house where the composer spends half his time and does most of his work, and where every room is packed with tchotchkes and bric-a-brac and strange instruments that Merritt has found at antique shops and flea markets.
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Every year, on the first weekend in September, an estimated 225 million people descend on the northern French city to wander through streets lined with bric-a-brac, have a drink in a cafe or bar, eat the local specialty of mussels and fries, and generally have a good time.
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She was in some ways the least noticed of the group because she addressed the emperor's-clothes aspect of art through the least showy filter: She simply took photographs of objects in museums, auction houses and private collections, and revealed them to be the pricey bric-a-brac that they are.
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Ms. Han's one-bedroom apartment, on the eighth floor of Grosvenor House, measures 140 square meters, or about 1,500 square feet, and is a colorful expression of Ms. Han's personality, with each room painted a different shade and much of the furniture custom-made, or picked up from local bric-a-brac stores.
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Capital of Georgia and the heart of the Caucasus, the city teems with riches: cathedrals that rise in the hills like layer cakes; hidden cafes bursting with bric-a-brac, and a bohemian art scene that is slowly peeling away the Soviet grit from this survivalist town to reveal a vibrant creative core.
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She let her mind dwell on the large parlors, decked with old silk, with their delicate furniture, supporting precious bric-a-brac, and on the coquettish little rooms, perfumed, prepared for the 220 o'clock chat with the most intimate friends, men well known and sought after, whose attentions all women envied and desired.
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Chatting over Skype, she took me on a virtual tour of her collection, laid out meticulously inside a glass cabinet, a throwback to the 16th century, when the nobility would curate "cabinets of curiosity," bric-a-brac collections of exotic items gathered from around the globe, often with a human skull as the centerpiece.
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The book is punctuated with snapshots of the couple's 18th Street loft, which looks just as you'd expect it to: flooded with light, full of houseplants, crammed with art and papers and meaningful bric-a-brac, the kind of New York homestead that seems only to live on in simulacra, as art-directed television location.
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The architecturally undistinguished complex was built in the 1950s, financed partly by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, as a middle-class cooperative, and although it's now spruced up, like much of Lower Manhattan, the buildings are still home to plenty of original tenants, now elderly, whose design ethos is more bric-a-brac than Bauhaus.
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In another installation, A Woman Waits For Me, Zanisnik trapped himself in a display case, a contrarian response to his own adolescent shyness (as part of the show, his father would visit and stare inside); in still another, Five Weeks in a Balloon (an earlier allusion to a writer, Jules Verne), Zanisnik was again bound, this time by newspaper clippings, scraps, and bric-a-brac.
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From the souvenir shop on the ground floor, with its wooden cases of shells, toy boats and leering papier-mâché masks sold for Ostend's springtime carnival, to the stuffy parlors with vases of feathers, elaborately patterned wall-to-wall Brussels carpeting, damask curtains and bric-a-brac everywhere, it's a stifling terrarium-like place where it's easy to imagine Ensor in his waistcoat and waxed mustache playing his harmonium in front of one of his best-known works, "The Entry of Christ in Brussels," today hanging at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
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Trace the penetration of the blazing, boring sun, the patterning on every architectural surface, the varied clothing, and privileged interior view to the Matisse of the Nice pictures, who appears intent upon de-mythologizing Delacroix's tableau over and over, dismantling its mechanisms with a changing cast of curvy and blatantly erotic nudes, along with partially covered models and prim, fully dressed fashion plates, posing among fabrics, shawls, drapes, and costumes covered in Moroccan patterns, stripes of all kinds and on and on, as well as a host of secondary props that includes flowers, brass trays, birdcages, and various bric-a-brac.
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