A terra cotta statue is unpacked for the exhibition "Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor," at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, Calif.
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Susan Tunick, author of "Terra-Cotta Skyline," a history of architectural terra-cotta in New York, said that few city theaters with such vivid polychromatic decoration survive.
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Sullivan's famous foliated ornament, in terra cotta, sprouts above entrances.
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People buy brown and brick and terra cotta and orange.
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Tiles are falling off the arches, revealing the terra cotta backing.
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The house also has a terra-cotta roof and wooden shutters.
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"Jimmy never would have chosen terra-cotta tiles," Ms. Bresnahan said.
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The fountains are real, made in glazed terra cotta by Ms. Kley.
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Terra-cotta tile floors and beamed ceilings run throughout the ground level.
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Here are three highlights: • A terra cotta trumpet shaped like a jaguar.
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A terra-cotta head of Medusa changes the mood of the lineup.
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I also really like the classy leather accents on the terra-cotta version.
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With terra-cotta, he could create stand-alone objects but also decorative environments.
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MADISON "Good Earth: Pottery and Terra Cotta Industries in New Jersey," group show.
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The entrance extended inward, with a terra cotta sunburst detail that evoked optimism.
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Floors of handcrafted terra-cotta tiles are found throughout much of the villa.
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Outdoor space: The unit comes with a private terra-cotta-paved front terrace.
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In the corner is a kiva-like concrete fireplace trimmed in terra cotta.
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Plastic flutes of free champagne line the back bars like terra cotta warriors.
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The adjacent office has terra-cotta tile floors and windows wrapping three sides.
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Green cupolas bob amid terra-cotta rooftops and Renaissance, Baroque and Art Nouveau buildings.
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The central tower at the top of the building is fronted with terra cotta.
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Stately town houses and hotels in mint green, terra-cotta, mustard, ochre, and pink.
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The long-shuttered National Theater features a modernistic design of terra cotta latticework towers.
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Empty terra-cotta pots get a pressure wash and an escort to the garage.
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He recalls painting terra-cotta pots and other objects in off-kilter pastel shades.
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Terra cotta tiles will line the openings — in keeping with the traditional red firehouse.
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Architectural terra-cotta is an ancient form of masonry that is still used extensively today.
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It's a terra cotta bust, probably used in a museum or a school for drawing.
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A terra-cotta portrait of a baby's pillowed head was most likely made in Saugerties.
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When inspectors returned last month, they found cracks in the terra-cotta, stone and brick.
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These prized piglets are nestled inside terra-cotta casseroles and roasted over a fire pit.
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Charred terra cotta roof tiles lay among the debris, and azure pool waters were turned chocolate.
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The interior is airy and clean-lined, with terra-cotta floors and walls of glass throughout.
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The terra-cotta warriors were built for the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor.
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Some of the balconies had conical-shape terra cotta vases used to hold wine and oil.
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He began showing in exhibitions and, working in wood, terra cotta and metal, he embraced abstraction.
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Edlich says she covered the exterior in reclaimed stones and terra cotta tiles that came from Italy.
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Miss Terra Cotta Sugarbaker and all of our LGBTQ friends are always welcome at Atlanta City Hall.
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I turned the former liveryman's quarters, with its terra-cotta floor and stenciled walls, into my office.
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Position yourself outward from the terra-cotta wall of the harbor, which is shaped like a crescent.
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The ornate station featured chandeliers, ornamental skylights and soaring archways with zigzagging patterns of terra-cotta tiles.
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Four years later a 2-year-old girl was killed by falling terra cotta from the building.
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A simple white toilet and pedestal sink stood in stark contrast to the earthy terra cotta tiling.
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Both of the works — a terra-cotta bust of St. Lawrence and a terra-cotta relief of the beheading of St. John the Baptist — belong to the Paris-based art collectors Peter Silverman and Kathleen Onorato, who lent them to the museum to encourage the discussion over their pedigrees.
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In the drawing room, terra cotta-red Roman blinds attenuate the strong Mediterranean sun to a pinkish hue.
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Tesla's tiles will actually be more resilient than traditional roofing materials, including terra-cotta, clay and slate tiles.
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It retains many of its original charming details, like beamed ceilings, casement windows, and terra cotta tile floors.
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The roof tiles will come in four styles: terra cotta, slate, textured glass and smooth glass, Tesla said.
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The protestors say the terra-cotta statue's elongated shape and minimalist features were obscene and demanded its removal.
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To the left of the large foyer is a fully glassed-in interior patio with terra-cotta floors.
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It features classic Moorish Andalusian architecture with a glassed-in courtyard restaurant, glazed tiles and terra-cotta brick.
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His menu goes from single-bite tapas to more substantial cazuelas, often served in traditional terra-cotta pottery.
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The casts can be painted to resemble various materials, including gilded wood, bronze, terra cotta, marble and stone.
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There's a lot of terra-cotta work, a lot of plaster statuary, that's made to look like marble.
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Outdoor space: The house is surrounded on both levels by terra-cotta decks with metal railing and verdant views.
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The flooring in most of the living areas is polished concrete; other rooms have terra cotta or hardwood floors.
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Its specialty was a brand of glazed terra-cotta sculpture that was physically durable, graphically strong and technologically inimitable.
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Magma is his top wine, made virtually by hand and aged in terra-cotta amphorae buried in volcanic rock.
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An older woman, who lives in the neighborhood, stopped by with a terra-cotta-colored finger that she'd borrowed.
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The terra cotta-colored foam has become grooved and furrowed, which reinforces its resemblance to ancient and Renaissance sculptures.
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The 1993-story building's lobby is "old-school Art Deco" with a terra-cotta floor and stained-glass doors.
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I bought this Maybelline Lasting Drama matte eyeliner in 'rusty terra cotta' the other week and it's honestly amazing.
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It's a question that framed my viewing of Verrocchio's works in bronze and terra cotta, on view through Jan.
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You noticed the pendant against the neck of her terra-cotta-colored top the moment before she turned away.
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Nearby, three giant terra cotta vessels poised roughly shoulder-high "pour" out converging streams of green bromeliads and dappled orchids.
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While most rooms have the original exposed wood slat ceilings, a few barrel-style ceilings are made of terra cotta.
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"Lotus Pond" (1995) is a marvelous arrangement of 13 terra cotta components arranged on a structure of red sandstone brick.
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Columbus Circle, one of Heins & LaFarge's most elaborate stations, features a terra-cotta relief of the Santa Maria at sea.
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The facade has brick and red sandstone from Lake Superior, with a carved terra-cotta lintel and fluted iron pilasters.
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A growing number of building facade inspectors, increasingly women, are rappelling into New York City's glass and terra-cotta canyons.
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The white concrete structure with a terra-cotta tile roof has two stories and 15,28 square feet of interior space.
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The department fined the building's owner in April because the terra cotta was coming apart and at risk of falling.
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Colorful, winding stone streets, terra-cotta rooftops and swaying palms make Olinda a photographer's dream; feel free to get lost.
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"The terra-cotta pieces are so much more about the forms, and the welded pieces, about the lines," Parker said.
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The firm also borrowed software from filmmaking and video gaming to guarantee the complexity of the building's terra-cotta adornments.
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The Live Tinted Huestick comes in three shades — Origin (an orange-red), Rise (a terra-cotta), and Perk (a peach-pink).
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Terra-cotta statues of child slaves are inside of a church at the Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana January 13, 2015.
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It wouldn't be the first time Trump confronted a global incident from the confines of his terra-cotta-roofed oceanfront mansion.
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In the dining room, the ceiling is vaulted and made of timber, and the flooring includes large squares of terra cotta.
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Floors are variously of marble, parquet, tile, terrazzo or terra cotta, and a grand expanse of windows takes in the view.
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When it opens in 2020, its forlorn cells will be gone and its terra-cotta facade and colorful wall mosaics restored.
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A two-story rectangular box clad in terra cotta, its exterior features, among other things, pale green and blue mosaic tile.
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A caption alongside a photograph of the school's terra-cotta facade reads, "When will Shanghai Starriver open its gates to me?"
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News of the theft provoked anger in China, where the terra-cotta warriors are national treasures and a major tourist attraction.
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Traditional elements can be found throughout the property, including antique light fixtures, painted tile floors, gothic windows and terra-cotta roofs.
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Up top, a pergola with terra-cotta columns covers part of the large stone terrace, which is edged by a balustrade.
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The only Lincoln items Mr. Holzer is keeping are modern art pieces, such as a watercolor and a terra cotta bust.
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And are there legions of potential customers willing to spring tens of thousands of dollars for terra cotta glass solar shingles?
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So I went to the flea market and I bought my first object there: a pair of monkeys in terra cotta.
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And just next door is her home goods store Vita, which sells dishes, glasses, linens, antiques, terra-cotta jugs and pitchers.
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The grapes were fermented and aged in terra-cotta amphorae, a traditional method in the Chilean countryside, according to the importer.
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Built in the 21956s, the 19883-story red brick, mortar and terra cotta building near the Promenade is now called the Arlington.
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The first floor of the house has a living room with terra-cotta tiles, heavy wooden ceiling beams and a white fireplace.
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Indeed, only one Brooklyn theater with multicolored terra-cotta facade ornament — the 1908 Peter Jay Sharp Building at BAM — enjoys landmark protection.
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Floors throughout are a mix of original tile and rough stone, and some have been renovated with modern tile and terra cotta.
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The bride's father retired as an artisan at Gruppo Ripa Bianca, a maker of terra-cotta products in Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy.
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Separate doorways lead to a sunroom with terra-cotta tile floors and a connected dining room with a sponge-painted coffered ceiling.
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Inspectors found that terra cotta above the 15th floor was damaged and at risk of falling and injuring people on the street.
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But the museum's home is not made of the materials it celebrates: granite, marble, limestone, sandstone and various kinds of terra cotta.
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And they line the path with a kind of honor guard of a dozen equestrian sculptures in terra-cotta, metal and wood.
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Now, construction workers are repairing the steel structure and replacing damaged terra cotta, limestone and brick that make up the station's exterior.
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A sidewalk shed was installed hours after Ms. Tishman died, and the company plans to remove all of the decorative terra cotta.
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The future of transportation is here, and it's driving the wrong way past row after row of soulless terra cotta strip malls.
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Sephora Collection Matte Perfection Powder Foundation, introduced a few months ago, offers a wide selection of saturated browns and terra-cotta shades.
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Among the earliest pieces in the show are two 141 female heads modeled in terra cotta, one with a post-flapper bob.
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In the backyard, a terrace with an in-ground saltwater pool is surrounded by a large deck covered in terra-cotta tile.
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"This is where Amina and her father reigned supreme over 13 emirates," said Ogunjiofor, when we arrived at the impressive terra-cotta palace.
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Stone-block medieval mosques and minarets anchored flagstone streets lined with terra cotta-roofed shops selling jewelry, copper coffee sets and leather goods.
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The vandalism outraged Chinese officials, who strictly regulate the research and restoration of the terra cotta statues since their discovery in the 1970s.
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It is, in fact, a series of spherical, terra cotta-colored rooms that spill across a cliff at Théoule-sur-Mer, near Cannes.
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He liked it because it had all this great woodwork inside, and the front of the building had this great terra cotta front.
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The two-story, white concrete structure is topped with a terra-cotta tile roof and sits on 21 landscaped acres, with ocean views.
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The brand-new stadium has a retractable roof and is naturally ventilated, featuring overlapping terra cotta panels that circulate the air between decks.
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Thursday was a "craft jam" — terra cotta pot painting amplified by rosé and salty snacks — at Node in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.
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And some exhibit a kind of pathological realism, as in the case of a terra-cotta figure whose body sprouts tumor-like knobs.
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On the wall, above the antique terra-cotta floor tiles, hangs a picture of Madonna and child by the Baroque painter Francesco Solimena.
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There are 20-foot beamed ceilings and boldly patterned concrete tile floors, terra cotta sphinxes and French chairs made of steel and twine.
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In the kitchen, there are terra-cotta tile floors and original beams, as well as industrial stainless steel counters and restaurant-grade appliances.
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Art Deco is worth big bucks, he has been told, and movie industry people have offered to buy that row of terra-cotta visages.
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It held about 217,22012 fans, featured a double-decked grandstand with terra-cotta roof tiles and a 15-story clock tower behind home plate.
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Mr. Sandulli's seven terra-cotta panels line a walking path that leads to Marina di Praia beach, a pebbly stretch wedged between the cliffsides.
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He grabbed a handful of the smallest, rinsed them off and plopped them in a terra-cotta bowl with a sprig of fresh rosemary.
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In addition to the museum, it now houses an art museum and a rooftop terrace with views over the terra-cotta-tiled city roofs.
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The firm used a team of five rappelers to examine the 22-story terra-cotta-and-limestone building in one day, for around $25,20100.
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The drone allowed the men to observe the work of excavators and motorized barrows, and the construction of pergolas, fountains and terra-cotta walkways.
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Throughout the morning, curious residents wandered over to the sinkhole which had opened along the bottom edge of the three-story, terra-cotta building.
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Susan Tunick, a terra-cotta authority, told me that when the building was being restored, she was allowed to go out on a scaffold.
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I used to draw people's heads in heart shapes, and I also made a terra-cotta "Ding" vessel where the holder was my face.
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Terra-cotta literally means "fired earth," a nod to the process of turning clay into a durable product used in pottery, floor tiles, and roofing.
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From the street, it was virtually impossible to tell; the roofs retained a variety of traditional looks, from textured slate shingle to terra cotta tile.
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We were in her airy apartment, surrounded by book-lined walls, terra-cotta tile floors, and large windows framing views of the Gulf of Naples.
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Some works even venture into the realm of trompe-l'oeil, with opaque strokes of terra cotta giving way to deep space teeming with ethereal lines.
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The archaeologists also discovered ushabti funerary figurines made of faience, terra cotta and wood as well as a collection of clay pots, the ministry said.
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A few pieces from the Woolleys' trove, including gold vessels and terra-cotta figurines, were looted from Iraq's national museum around 2003 and have vanished.
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The kitchen, inside yet another turret and expanded and renovated in 2001, has terra-cotta floors, mosaic-accented walls and appliances by Whirlpool and Rosières.
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COS also makes a version fermented and aged in terra-cotta amphorae from Spain, labeled Pithos Rosso, though it's the same blend as the Cerasuolo.
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It's usually late before the group gathers for dinner in the outdoor pavilion, near the concrete-and-limestone kitchen with its terra-cotta bread oven.
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Down below, broken terra-cotta hands are piled in a huge circle on the ground, like the remnants of an ancient society or mysterious ritual.
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The walkout basement has a terra-cotta tiled-floor rec room with a fireplace, a climate-controlled wine storage area and a sauna and shower.
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Numerous French and sliding doors, terraces and a terra-cotta-tiled balcony stretching across the back of the two-story house also offer panoramic vistas.
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They are full of wood, terra-cotta and porcelain figurines depicting not just the Holy Family but also the trades and fashions of the time.
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Simone Leigh's fantastic "trophallaxis," a hanging bundle of nut-shaped, slate gray terra-cotta breasts, bristling with fully extended car antennas, may be an exception.
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Throughout the house are period materials from Spain, Morocco and France installed during the renovation, including plaster cornices and floors of handmade terra-cotta tile.
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Mr. Mikhailovsky pointed out the almost Italianate use of soft terra-cotta colors, and the predominance of white — signaling purity — in the youth on parade.
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But it is sculpture, and specifically some 20 terra-cotta and wood Middle Niger figures, that forms the visual and emotional heart of the show.
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The sites have major structural problems, including corroded masonry and fractured terra cotta, which could come loose and hurt or kill people on the ground.
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Walking tours of Brutalist masterpieces, in cities around the world, are now competing with ones that point out Victorian terra cotta and Art Deco metalwork.
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Gamper tiled their bathroom in terra-cotta stone partly because it reminded him of his childhood in Italy but also because ''white tile feels so cold.
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Plants add life and color to any space, and there are so many fun planters on the market, like this tall terra cotta piece from CB2.
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The abject, crumpling shapes suggest flaccid penises, while their terra-cotta color and arrangement recalls the ceramic army buried with Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor.
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Adjacent to the living room is a self-contained apartment, with terra-cotta tiles, a sitting area, a canopy bed, a small kitchen and a bathroom.
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And in a peculiar example of life imitating art, real plants are growing out of a decorative band of terra-cotta leaves on the structure's cornice.
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The 13,000-square-foot property, built and owned by the fashion magnate Pierre Cardin, is composed of giant terra cotta orbs arranged in a sprawling hive.
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The little dining room spilled into a courtyard, where oleander and bougainvillea grew in terra-cotta pots and tables were set out under a striped awning.
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Most of the interior has been retained and restored, including hardwood floors, foot-thick terra-cotta walls with plaster covering, and some hanging candelabras and lamps.
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The pieces were cast from hydrostone, a type of gypsum cement; some were mixed with black pigment, some with terra-cotta, and most left naturally white.
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INSIDE Period details include Saltillo terra-cotta tiles; hardwood floors; beamed, wood-covered and vaulted ceilings; French doors; and an abundance of nooks and built-ins.
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Size: 2,125 square feet Price per square foot: $845 Indoors: The main entrance is up an exterior flight of terra-cotta steps ornamented with colorful tiles.
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The blueprints showed that these rooftop decorations, known as antefixes, were in fact baseballs, ornaments that echoed the baseball-adorned terra-cotta spandrels above the pilasters.
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They incorporated many natural materials into the design, he said, including mahogany and oak, terra-cotta and marble tile, as well as mosaic finishes from India.
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Titled "Lattice Detour," the work will reportedly be made of terra cotta bricks — a material routinely employed by Zamora in various discrete sculptures and installation works.
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The book, published when Mr. Camilleri was 22012, sold well enough to warrant a sequel, "The Terra-Cotta Dog," in 1996, and then another, and another.
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The front door opens onto a small foyer and a hallway with terra-cotta tile flooring that extends through much of the 1,938-square-foot house.
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Casting the facade's terra-cotta panels demanded 1,380 different molds; the lacework patterns baked onto its windows look just as varied, like anemones on a reef.
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Many high-rise structures sprung up, such as the Reliance Building that had a steel frame and terra cotta exterior — a good precaution against further fires.
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They lived in terra-cotta mansions, had servants—many of whom were white—and while one American might own a car each, the Osage owned 11 cars.
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Tesla has a few varieties, and they are designed to match common roof shingle or tile styles (such as terra cotta tiles, French slate, and so on).
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Singer Castle's 60-foot walls and terra-cotta roof, built by Frederick Gilbert Bourne of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, passed a few hundred yards to starboard.
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In June, his terra-cotta reliefs of adult and baby mastodons and mammoths will go on display on the grounds of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
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The 4,800 square foot Renaissance-revival style theater—with its limestone and terra cotta façade, Corinthian columns, and 40-foot vaulted ceilings—is fit for king's court.
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Ernest R. Graham designed the building, with an H-shaped superstructure atop a six-story base and a steel frame, clad in granite, terra cotta and brick.
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Soon joining Atelier and Sky around the corner will be Oskar, a rental building with a terra-cotta facade at 572 433th Avenue, at West 43rd Street.
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The plaster cracks naturally, and Varejão paints them in a monochromatic white, coloring the edges a claylike shade to lend them the appearance of cracked terra cotta.
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Canova tried to get a sense of the man in a small, terra-cotta primo pensiero, or "first thought," the surface of which still bears his fingerprints.
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Here, flowers spill out of terra-cotta pots to adorn the labyrinthine paths where stray cats don't as much demand as expect to be petted and adored.
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For the Met's Cantor Roof Garden, the Mexican artist Héctor Zamora has been selected to install one of his sculptures, "Lattice Detour," made of terra cotta bricks.
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Think of the life-size terra-cotta soldiers that open the show as crusaders for the N.E.A., without whose support the blockbuster might not have been possible.
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Visitors will have the chance to sample special recipes and view terra cotta and cast-bronze bowls made by the Brazilian design duo Fernando and Humberto Campana.
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These babies manage to impart a silky finish without so much as one shimmery fleck, thanks to jet-milled powders that are baked on terra-cotta clay tiles.
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Old school builders used terra cotta or brick to insulate structural steel members from heat, but engineers today opt for concrete, cementitious spray-on coatings, or intumescent paint.
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The Solid-Colored Background: Most of Zara's floral patterns rest on a solid background that's typically white, ivory, navy blue, terra-cotta red, black, or peachy pink. 2.
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Running along the top was a terra-cotta band of stylized Art Deco women's faces, suggestive of theatrical masks or muses, each one sporting a smart Cleopatra hairdo.
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The "Lamentation" dates to about 1515, and the "Resurrection" to 1520-1524, by which time the vogue for terra-cotta sculpture was ending, though with a stirring denouement.
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So Mr. Molner's marble-topped Saarinen table and Tulip chairs are in the freshly renovated kitchen (out with the terra-cotta tile, in with the stria porcelain tile).
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At least the red and yellow terra-cotta tiles on the facade and interior resonated as planned, in a nod to the colors of the nearby Forbidden City.
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In a city crowded with new towers, the inspections are expected to grow more popular — good news for thrill seekers hoping to scale the city's terra-cotta canyons.
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Three bedrooms are on the second floor, including the master suite, which has a 118-square-foot terrace laid with Italian terra-cotta tiles and adorned in vines.
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Just inside the front gate is Wave Hill's conservatory, a greenhouse where tropical plants, cactuses and succulents fill nearly 1,000 terra-cotta pots and climb up lattice panels.
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They can also make their own art — masks, sketches and even a terra cotta statue — as well as take part in a scavenger hunt and a quiz contest.
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The primate overlooks a room painted flamingo pink, pinker even than the terra-cotta ramparts that encircle the old city a few miles from this quiet residential enclave.
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My colleague, Muktita Suhartono, and I had come to Surabaya, an Indonesian city with alleyways of terra cotta roofed homes, largely on the basis of a single photo.
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The building's terra-cotta walkways, vaulted ceilings and candlelit archways open onto 26 rooms, each with a hand-carved cedar door depicting an iconic figure in Antigua's history.
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In April, the owner of the building had been fined by the city because terra cotta above the 15th floor was coming apart and at risk of falling.
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Archaeologists found remnants of settlements that old — two primitive terra cotta statues of a fertility goddess as well as pottery — in the commanding heights where the citadel now stands.
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The terra cotta and slate roofs Tesla mimicked are among the most expensive roofing materials on the market—costing as much as 20 times more than cheap asphalt shingles.
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He grew up in Santpedor, a close-knit medieval town up in the hills, a couple of hours north of the city, all terra-cotta houses and unlocked doors.
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Forging, welding, cutting, hammering sheets and bars of metal, bending wire, and molding terra cotta — with each of these processes, Kirili finds in inanimate matter a metaphor for flesh.
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There are also clay accounting tokens (representing quantities of goods) and pottery; carved cylindrical seals; gold jewelry with semiprecious stones; terra cotta figurines; and metal, clay and ivory sculptures.
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The warrior was a symbol of martial strength, molded from terra cotta and buried more than 2,000 years ago with China's first emperor to defend him in the afterlife.
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From Italy in the third century B.C. comes a realistically painted terra-cotta sculpture of a detached foot, probably a gratitude gift, left at a shrine for a healing.
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Rows of walnut benches that ingeniously double as lecterns — "plutei," they are called — flank the sides of a central corridor paved in intricately patterned rose and cream terra cotta.
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Ms. Choucair worked in a variety of materials, including wood, aluminum, brass, terra cotta and tufa stone, with a pared-down elegance and sensuous touch that sometimes recalled Brancusi.
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People have been surrounding themselves with objects of worship since time immemorial, even if today's fetish is more likely to be a Chewbacca collectible than a terra-cotta object.
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At Old Westbury, Mr. Crawley conjured up a home of subdued, symmetrical elegance, its cherry red Virginia brick accented by cream-colored Indiana limestone and a terra-cotta cornice.
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Glazed with very typical ceramic colors — blue, brown, terra cotta — these cups seem ordinary, but when you look closely at them, the subject matter that emerges grabs at your heart.
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Last summer, NYBG featured a pyramid in red, blue, and yellow covered with cacti, succulents, and perennials in terra-cotta pots to represent the Casa Azul garden of Frida Kahlo.
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That's where, in 220, Vuitton bought Les Fontaines Parfumees, a terra-cotta hued 17th-century perfumery surrounded by lush lawns, fountains and more than 350 species of flowers and plants.
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There are also indoor and outdoor dining areas, and elegant living rooms in stone and terra-cotta, all linked with arches that open on to the pool and the garden.
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These steps lead to a balustrade-free rooftop deck, its terra-cotta floor tiles hand-painted a burnished red and installed without grout to add dimension and enhance their symmetry.
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Rejecting the crystalline look so popular with new developments in the neighborhood, the condo offers an exterior detailed with terra cotta and bronze, in a nod to more traditional materials.
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In "La Mulatta," Ms. Williams layers an image of her own face, with slowly blinking eyes, over a photograph of a 240th-century terra-cotta bust of a bound slave.
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Burnham's skinny building — a clever architectural solution to an unusual lot — shot straight up from the ground, with no setbacks, its three sides covered with classically inspired terra-cotta ornamentation.
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The main house is connected by stone pathways to one-level bungalows on either side, which are similarly configured and constructed of concrete, wood and stone, with terra-cotta roofs.
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Judy Greene opened her workshop on Kirwans Lane in Galway in 1982 with a focus on hand-thrown terra-cotta clay evoking the wild Connemara terrain just north of town.
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In 2003, three of the farmers who had found the statue fragments asked the museum authorities for a certificate that officially declared them the discoverers of the terra-cotta army.
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Initiated as a safety measure in 1980 after a pedestrian was killed by a piece of falling terra cotta, the sidewalk shed has become a loathed symbol of urban intransigence.
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While the authorities have not said what hit her, an inspection by the Department of Buildings after the accident found cracks in the building's facade and terra cotta pieces missing.
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On board, docents pointed out landmarks such as the white terra cotta Wrigley Building completed in 1924 and the corncob-shaped Marina City towers from 1967 designed by Bertrand Goldberg.
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With walls of granite and brick and a terra-cotta tile roof, the three-story villa is on 3.16 acres and has views of the Atlantic Ocean from the upper floors.
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One of the most innovative promotional firms was the della Robbia workshop, its specialty being a popular brand of glazed terra-cotta sculpture that was physically durable, graphically strong and inimitable.
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One of the most innovative promotional firms was the Della Robbia workshop, its specialty being a popular brand of glazed terra-cotta sculpture that was physically durable, graphically strong and inimitable.
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"We get to touch these pieces of terra cotta that no one has touched in a hundred years," said Ms. DeLuca, who considers it one of the perks of the job.
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But the most illuminating juxtaposition is that of a bronze study for Balzac's head with the terra-cotta bust of a resident of Balzac's native Tours that Rodin used for reference.
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"Donatrice," a 2019 work that places a battered 15th-century terra-cotta sculpture of a praying girl on a steel table, is priced at 135,000 euros, or about $152,000, she said.
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But the five-months-old Siren Hotel has breathed new life into the Renaissance Revivalist exemplar, restoring its travertine floors, the plaster detailing on its ceilings and its terra-cotta signs.
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The original stazzu is now the first-floor master bedroom, which has field-rock walls, terra cotta floors and a traditional ceiling of bamboo cane and juniper beams, Ms. Bracco said.
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Over the next 25 years, she formed a collection distinguished by 15th- and 16th-century Italian and Flemish oil paintings and 14th- through 16th-century wood, terra cotta and stone sculpture.
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Flame Tree Ridge, for one, is meant to evoke the feeling of being in the Tuscan countryside and has four- and five-bedroom villas with stone facades and terra-cotta roofs.
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Other objects are cobbled together from wood, cardboard, thread, stoneware, paper, hardware, shells, cement, fabrics, terra cotta, and hair extensions — offering an array of surfaces off of which light may bounce.
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Minutes before reaching it, a right turn onto a dirt road delivers you to the historic adobe ranch, painted a warm terra cotta, with a porch lined with turquoise Adirondack chairs.
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I found Smith's offices up a lopsided wooden staircase, the warren of narrow rooms and worn terra-cotta tile floors hinting at the building's origins as an 18th-century porcelain factory.
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The farmers had stumbled onto an incredible "army" of about 8,000 life-size terra cotta warriors who had been guarding the tomb of China&aposs first emperor for more than 2,000 years.
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Eighteenth-century terra-cotta angels in silk robes deck the tree's boughs, and an elaborate crèche re-creating the bustle of life in the port city of Naples sprawls at its base.
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Liquid waves roll under the rigid city: The church bells ring out of time, terra cotta tiles rain down from the Renaissance rooftops, priceless paintings rattle off the walls of the Uffizi.
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The exhibition also presents a set of wonderful small terra-cotta sculptures that Mr. Mullican made in 1960: emblematic figures formed from rolls and balls of clay lying flat on the pedestal.
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There's also a mishmash of items found in the tower and around the property dating back even further than the Dark Ages, such as several terra-cotta urns from pre-Christian times.
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The menu concept is "pick & mix": each diner chooses two dishes from about two dozen, which come perfectly portioned in small terra-cotta bowls with a side of jasmine or red rice.
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The Title Guarantee and Trust Company Building, at Hill and West Fifth Streets, a beautiful cream-colored glazed terra cotta structure with a granite base, has a way of drawing your attention.
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This terra-cotta building, with residential co-ops above the 5163,2516 square feet of dividable ground-floor retail space, sits across from City Hall Park and adjacent to Pace University's Manhattan campus.
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There is also the 143-unit Fitzroy, at 514 West 24th Street, whose jade-colored, terra-cotta exterior was designed by Roman and Williams, a firm known for residential interiors and hotels.
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Katia Zavistovski This section was completed in 1983, and was inspired by the terra-cotta warriors that had been excavated in the 1970s from the mausoleum of the first emperor of China.
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"Look at this," he said, gesturing to a small terra cotta head for Rodin's "The Age of Bronze," positioned alongside letters written by Rodin to his model for the work, Auguste Neyt.
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Rodin's 1883 marble "Eve" is the centerpiece of this exhibition showing more than 150 works in bronze, marble, plaster, porcelain, and terra cotta, by artists from Europe, Mexico and Latin America. Nov.
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Attractive antique co-ops also dot Midtown, like the Osborne, whose brownstone facade is speckled with stained-glass windows, and Alwyn Court, whose sumptuous terra-cotta details include cherubs, salamanders and crowns.
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As dusk fell over Staten Island on a recent evening, about 2300 people sat around a large wooden table in a communal kitchen, listening to Van Morrison and painting terra-cotta flowerpots.
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The older of these two artists is Bertoldo di Giovanni (circa 107-24455), whose small but varied output in bronze, wood and terra cotta anchored the fall season at the Frick Collection.
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Overall activeness score: 55.8What they do: Lay and bind building materials like bricks, tiles, concrete, cinder, glass, and terra-cotta blocks to build or fix things like walls, partitions, arches, and sewers.
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Called Wild Bank, the 1907 six-bedroom stucco house with a terra-cotta roof sits on a bluff overlooking Manhasset Bay and has a beach, a deepwater dock and a tennis court.
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Venice Gordon, a twenty-two-year-old Brooklyn-based photographer, who owns about thirty plants, wanted to buy the California-made terra-cotta pots that the Cactus Store brings to New York.
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In parts of Italy, limonaias — lemon houses — are where citrus trees in their terra-cotta pots are taken during the winter months to shield them from the unforgiving frost and heavy rain.
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And the ability of glazed terra-cotta tiles, hung on a steel frame, to imitate expansive masonry walls made the material a popular choice for architectural expression and durability during the early 1900s.
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From April to October, guests also may visit the Aromatic Garden on the villa's large terrace, where perfume ingredients such as Sichuan pepper, cardamom and frangipani are grown in large terra cotta pots.
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Recruited by his father to save the whimsical stone carvings and terra-cotta castings on old buildings about to be demolished, he is put to harsh tests of loyalty, even by teenage standards.
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Completed in 2018, their 485-square-foot studio space looks like a square gift box wrapped in butcher's paper, its walls the shade of terra cotta against a lush backdrop of tropical foliage.
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A pair of police sharpshooters stood atop a day care center in the Bronx on Tuesday morning and peered over the terra cotta and marble facade of a converted movie theater next door.
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A MODEL FOR A FOUNTAIN A terra-cotta bust of a ponytailed Chinese man ($21910,219, at Bowman Sculpture) from the 255s was designed as a prototype for the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.
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We were still unpacking boxes when there was a total lunar eclipse, and we pulled a lounge chair into the kitchen and watched as the earth's shadow slid across a terra cotta moon.
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The 28-year-old designer and ceramist filled the space with furniture that felt unattached to the whims of trends — mixed-media pieces like a glass coffee table with juglike terra-cotta legs.
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The textured terra-cotta and brick facade, punctuated with irregularly sized and positioned windows, was his energetic response "to the amount of glass and metal going up all over the place," he said.
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Along with 828, with its three-story limestone base, metal cornice and terra-cotta details, the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission is considering six other historic buildings along Broadway just south of Union Square.
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Maison Harlem is nestled at the foot of the hill that leads to the City College campus and its hodgepodge of granite and white terra-cotta neo-Gothic buildings and stark modern structures.
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The coating basically becomes transparent when seen directly but from the angle of the street, it looks like an average slate shingle or terra cotta style and it essentially camouflages the underlying solar cells.
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I've been instructed to try a traditional Croatian meal of Lamb Under a Bell, which is lamb, vegetables, and potatoes all cooked under a terra cotta dome with burning embers on top of it.
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For an even better vantage, climb to the top of Torre Campanaria (free), an 265th-century brick bell tower beside the square that affords visitors unobstructed views across the terra-cotta rooftops and beyond.
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Out There In 1974, a farmer was digging a well in the countryside outside of Xi'an, the ancient imperial capital of China, when he started pulling up bricks, arrowheads and pieces of terra cotta.
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At first glance, Parkchester's brick buildings look plain, but closer inspection shows the builders adorned them with some 500 terra-cotta statues, high on corners and over doorways — animals, human figures and mythical characters.
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"For the Time Being," Annie Dillard Birth defects, ancient Chinese terra-cotta figures, the history of clouds, burning questions about suffering, numbers, evil and time — this strange gem of a book has it all.
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"Likeness" encompasses such sublimities as Donatello's painted terra-cotta bust of an Italian aristocrat, which shines with aloof sensitivity, and Rodin's breathtaking translucent "Mask of Hanako II Type E," which seems the soul incarnate.
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Today that house is called Les Fontaines Parfumées, a magnificent terra-cotta pink 18193th century villa that Dior's parent company, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, bought in 2013 and restored to its former glory.
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My favorite hike was from the seaside resort of Kokkari up to the village of Vourliotes, a honeycomb of traditional stone houses clinging to the mountainside, their terra-cotta roofs decorated with pottery pigeons.
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Owners Francesca Tomei and Daniele Lencioni created rustic-style rooms — sloped wood-beam roofs, quilt-topped iron-frame beds, and terra-cotta tiles — but with air-conditioning, heated floors, and a diminutive basement spa.
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The show highlights major discoveries from the past half-century, including Qin dynasty-era (221-206 B.C.) figurines from the first emperor's terra-cotta army; a bronze horse from the Eastern Han dynasty (A.
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A standard architectural element from Joinville might be a 19th-century terra-cotta tile floor for a kitchen — worth about $6,500, depending on the size of the kitchen and the condition of the tiles.
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He's equally fascinated by traditional materials like terra-cotta — a central element in artifacts of South America's pre-Columbian past — from which he creates deliberately well-thumbed ceramic seats, some with planters built in.
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The show highlights major discoveries from the past half-century, including Qin dynasty-era (221-1703 B.C.) figurines from the first emperor's terra-cotta army; a bronze horse from the Eastern Han dynasty (A.
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Ranging from terra cotta performers to carved stone animal sculptures, the objects are an extraordinary testimony to the customs and beliefs surrounding life and death during the Western Han Dynasty, one of China's golden eras.
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The least expensive was a three-bedroom, two-bathroom unit in a condominium development, priced at $356,000; the most expensive was a two-family brick building with a terra-cotta roof, priced at $1.569 million.
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The fortresslike vibe of the uptown, brick-walled office will be exchanged for an airier space of glass and green-toned terra cotta, a once-common decorative material that designers say is making a comeback.
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Begin trolling at the vast warehouse where Architectural Artifacts trades in decorative building castoffs from wrought iron railings and wooden mantelpieces to terra cotta gargoyles as well as more portable art tiles and juggling pins.
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The City Council passed the law after Grace Gold, a Barnard College student, was killed by a piece of terra cotta that fell from a 443 apartment house on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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Where to drink Kitchen 21 sits in an iconic 1920s restaurant space once occupied by the famous Childs, and it's an architectural marvel of majestic archways and filigreed terra cotta detailing under a soaring ceiling.
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On the second floor is the master bedroom, with the original terra-cotta floors common to the region and two sets of glass doors that open onto a balcony with a view of the lake.
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Her infatuation with the form also became a line of ceramic earrings — smooth links of bone, terra-cotta and black clay that put the earth-toned world she creates in the palm of a hand.
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The neo-Tudor-like townhouse, with a brick facade and limestone-colored terra cotta trim above a marble base, was built in 1881, and was remodeled with a new facade and front extension in 4003.
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At one station scheduled to open early next year, archaeologists found bits of ancient capitals, decorative marble elements, petrified peach pits from ancient Persian cuttings and 16th-century terra-cotta plates from a nearby hospital.
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Other notable objects include disembodied terra-cotta feet with wrinkly toes and pulsing veins, a sarcophagus for a toddler, flasks shaped like ducks and birds, and vessels depicting gods, goddesses, satyrs, nudes and breast-plated warriors.
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A story at AFP fills in the details of the discovery: The farmers found terra cotta heads and torsos in the province of Shaanxi and alerted Zhao, then working as the curator at a local museum.
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Last month, scaffolding was erected outside Columbia University's McBain residence hall, at 83 West 28th Street, where window keystones sit damaged, the terra-cotta facade is cracking and a safety violation remains outstanding, building records show.
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HONG KONG — Zhao Kangmin, an archaeologist who pieced together pottery fragments discovered by farmers and reconstructed the life-size terra-cotta warriors that have become one of China's best-known ancient wonders, died on May 16.
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The case closely echoes the removal of another terra-cotta wine vessel, the Euphronios Krater, from the museum in 22006 after evidence surfaced that it had been illegally excavated from an ancient burial ground in Italy.
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Built in 2001 in the Buena Vista subdivision, the concrete two-story house has a terra-cotta tile roof and a two-car garage, and faces the beach as well as part of the eighth fairway.
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The 1916 white terra cotta building, with original interior details including brass banisters and a marble staircase in the lobby, was originally home to the Hill Publishing Company, which later merged to become McGraw-Hill Publishing.
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The designers came up with a green terra cotta facade as textured as that of the Woolworth Building, giving the impression the 10-story project dates to a time when trains still ran along the elevated tracks.
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The living room floor is terra cotta tile mixed with Moroccan zellige tile, a recessed, hand-painted ceiling, a built-in wood library niche and a fireplace mantel constructed with fragments of stained glass and painted ceramics.
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Memories of Tammany will survive in decorative details like a limestone medallion of Chief Tamanend, for whom the society was named, and a red, blue and gold liberty cap, made of terra cotta, on the front pediment.
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The walls closed in—steep, streaked limestone cliffs with a terra-cotta tinge, pocked high and low with dark openings big and small, made by waterfalls during an era, post-Ice Age, when these precincts were lush.
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As evidenced by the objects here, clues were gathered from Greek and Egyptian sculpture, reliefs and painted vases — most enchantingly a group of small statuettes in terra-cotta from around 300-100 BCE, kicking up their heels.
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But before these hopefuls can join their ranks, they must spend a month sequestered here, among the pale yellow walls, terra cotta roofs and sculpted cypress trees of Casa Italia, the headquarters of Italian soccer's governing body.
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On the antique desk in the study, for example, a vividly painted terra-cotta vase by Picasso is offset by an enameled mask, in the somber style of Japanese raku pottery, by the Mexican artist Pia Camil.
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The city began requiring scaffolding as part of a 2003 city law that established regular inspections of building facades after a college student was killed by a chunk of terra cotta that fell from an apartment house.
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But its presence yielded one of the late-20th-century's great art historical finds when, in 1978, on a tip from local farmers, archaeologists uncovered an army of some 7,000 life-size terra-cotta figures buried nearby.
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Halfway down the building, that decoration even turns a somersault as a band of ornate terra cotta goes from sitting flat on the facade above the narrow embrasures to becoming a protruding cornice over the wider ones.
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On a circular dining table in the center of the space, copies of books by Steven Gambrel and David Hicks — decorators who have long inspired her — are stacked around a terra-cotta pot planted with katsura flowers.
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"One reason is that Gandharan scrolls, like the one at the Library of Congress, were typically buried in terra cotta jars and interred in a stupa, a dome-shaped structure often containing Buddhist texts or relics," Loar said.
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It turns out there was an entire army underneath his field — some 7,6003 terra cotta warriors, complete with horses and weapons, buried 2,300 years ago to protect the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China.
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A conservation and restoration firm, EverGreene Architectural Arts, excavated the 13 figures by cutting out each piece, separating the painted plaster from the heavy terra cotta backing, and hoisting them down from the stairwell to the ground floor.
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So relax on a chaise longue beside the large swimming pool or head out on the private terraces to take in the sweeping views of the Ebro River and the terra-cotta-roofed houses of the sleepy old town.
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The careful palette helps hold the book together, yet Yaccarino chooses specific colors to help evoke a sense of place with each era he depicts: terra-cotta brown and orange for ancient Egypt, mahogany and blue for the 1950s.
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Thus arrived a four-seat antique wood bar; elbow-to-elbow marble tables ("It creates a party atmosphere every night"); special terra-cotta floor tiles from Florence; and a muraled ceiling of a cerulean sky and puffy white clouds.
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In 15th-century Florence, Luca della Robbia invented a glazing technique for terra cotta that gave it a never-before-seen color and luster, and his family studio, which guarded the secret for generations, rose to renown throughout Europe.
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Mr. Calatrava said Ms. Sorokin settled on 2000 Park Avenue South as the site of her club — a six-story New York City landmark building with a copper and terra-cotta roof, marble mosaic floors and stained glass windows.
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It takes an hour, and countless tight hairpins shaded by slender cypresses, before the road descends into the village of Stia, its terra-cotta roofs nestled in an ocean of green, a little Tuscan idyll nestled in the valley.
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This show therefore includes older works of Asian art, like a pair of Tang dynasty terra-cotta horses and a 10th-century sandstone sculpture of a Rajasthani dancer, to emphasize the cross-cultural sources of the Progressives' artistic revolution.
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The City Council passed the law after Grace Gold, a Barnard College student, was killed in 483 by a piece of terra cotta that fell from an apartment house built in 248 at 249th Street and Broadway in Manhattan.
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Andrea della Robbia had only recently taken over the studio from his uncle, Luca, who pioneered the method of brilliantly colored, glazed terra cotta that brought the family to fame and is, to this day, visually synonymous with Florence.
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The designers covered a custom banquette in outdoor-grade pink fabric capable of withstanding wet swimsuits and children's spills, and installed hand-painted arabesque terra-cotta floor tiles from Tabarka Studio that extend from the inside to the outside.
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In the winery, a stately building finished in red terra cotta, he has installed a system for refreshing the air in the underground cellars three times a day, and has stones under the barrels to help control the humidity.
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Mellon would never actually wear such a stone, so Mr. Schlumberger created a flower around it and placed it in a terra-cotta pot from her greenhouse at Oak Spring Farm, so she could enjoy it at her leisure.
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"Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern" reveals in particular how this painter of simplified images of enlarged flowers, Lake George tree trunks and New Mexico's terra-cotta hills applied her meticulous sense of austerity and detail to every garment she owned.
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At the San Giovanni station, which is expected to open early next year, archaeologists found bits of ancient capitals, decorative marble elements, petrified peach pits from ancient Persian cuttings and 16th-century terra-cotta plates from a nearby hospital.
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Their romantic backyard nuptials are featured online in Martha Stewart Weddings, with Molzahn, 34, sharing all the adorable details, from the color palette (terra cotta, citron, grays, and blush pink) to the cake (gluten-free chocolate with salted-caramel frosting).
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Bright Eyes While our wardrobes might lean toward neutral, monochromatic themes for the foreseeable future (that's winter for you), an all-over warm eye in shades of terra-cotta or rich copper can add a little color to your look.
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There was the terra cotta facade from the Savoy Theater on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, and, next to a stream, the disassembled facade from the old RKO Jefferson Theater that once stood on East 14th Street in Manhattan, he said.
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A jury reportedly deadlocked on Tuesday in the trial of a man who admitted to breaking the thumb off a $4.5 million Chinese terra cotta statue while attending a Christmas-themed ugly sweater party at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
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Instead, the Bannermans rely on demonstrative and dramatic flowers, planted en masse for theatrical effect: shrub roses and rambling roses, huge petaled peonies, exotic echiums and fragrant lilies — scent is vital to their style — in terra-cotta pots on terraces.
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What made the buff-colored brick tower stand out — in addition to its stately limestone-fronted base, topped by gigantic garlanded terra-cotta urns, and its copper mansard roof floating above the treetops of Central Park — were its social spaces.
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Kitchen seating options include a long black dining table, plush green velvet couch, terra-cotta-colored window seats and this mod swinging chair that I could easily have fallen asleep in while rocking back and forth in the afternoon sun.
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If you're after what tour companies call the "authentic Roman experience," go to Testaccio market, grab a sandwich from Mordi e Vai and explore Monte Testaccio, a hill built from broken terra-cotta amphorae — in other words, an ancient trash heap.
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Its eight low-slung, terra-cotta-tiled houses are built into a hill covered in willow and angel's trumpets, and, from the hotel's restaurant (don't miss the corn-and-quinoa tamales), guests can watch alpacas graze on the front lawn.
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Sitting on just over an acre of landscaped property, the house, known as Villa Ataraxia, was designed by Sergio Escarfullery, a local architect, in the early 00723s and built out of concrete and stone, with a massive terra-cotta roof.
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Beyond is a tennis-court-size open courtyard; in recent years families have installed metal grating above to ward off gangs of monkeys who wreck the rounded terra-cotta roof tiles in search of scraps of food the birds drop.
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Then, pulling on a burnt orange pair with terra cotta laces and distinctive hollow little pods that ran the length of the soles, he acknowledged that that was probably a conservative estimate, given all the shoes he has from past matches.
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Go: Terra-cotta and wood sculptures form the "visual and emotional heart" of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York about the history and cultural heritage of kingdoms on the Sahara's rim, our art critic writes.
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The city law that requires them had the best intention — to protect people from falling terra cotta and other dangers — but it lacks a mechanism to compel building owners to get on with facade repairs and take the scaffolds down.
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The skeletons, which have yet to be dated through carbon testing, were found with items including terra cotta tiles, which led to the hypothesis that the road went out of use in the second or third century A.D., Ms. Cerino said.
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One end of the building's wide facade is built around the kind of narrow window openings that had been required by the Prescott's brick construction; they have elaborate terra-cotta surrounds that pay homage to the Prescott's ornate lintels and sills.
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The first lot acquired by the family, at public auction, belonged to the 18th-century restorer and sculptor Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, and included ancient statues and sarcophagi, along with terra cotta vases and bronzes that ended up decorating some of the Torlonia family villas.
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Elie Nadelman's "The Four Seasons" (1912) dance in terra-cotta on the stairway leading to the fourth floor, while hanging on the second is Picasso's "Le Tricorne" (1919) curtain, which was displayed at the Four Seasons restaurant for more than 50 years.
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The industrial arts exhibit influenced a wave of architects to deviate from the formal Beaux-Arts style popular at the time to a style that was punctuated by features like colorful terra cotta, stucco, decorative crowns, zigzags and flat roofs with parapets.
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Scientists from the University of South Florida discovered wine residue in roughly 6,000-year-old terra cotta jars in a Sicilian cave, indicating that wine production began in Italy thousands of years before the previously assumed date of 1200 B.C., per The Guardian.
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He took his top lieutenants to the newly renovated National Museum of China, a vast hall stuffed with relics of China's glorious past: terra-cotta soldiers from Xi'an, glazed statues from the Tang dynasty and rare bronzes from the distant Shang dynasty.
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The narrow 158-story tower is mostly glass, but is populated with numerous Art Deco flourishes, including vertical ribbons of chevron-patterned terra cotta, a lobby of overlapping cove lights recalling Radio City Music Hall and signage completed in an elongated typeface.
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This is the little bedroom with a ceiling of heavy white-painted beams and a floor of tomettes, the terra-cotta tiles once common in Burgundy, where Colette slept in a chestnut sleigh bed for the first 11 years of her life.
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Built at the site of the former 3123s-era Cedar Hotel, the Viceroy Chicago has a distinctive architectural twist: it melds the reconstructed brick and terra cotta facade of the old hotel with a new 2312-floor pleated glass high-rise tower.
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From the old City Hall station with its Guastavino tiles, to the terra-cotta beavers at Astor Place, the interiors of these stations were designed as a point of civic pride by George L. Heins and Christopher Grant LaFarge, and they've been landmarked since 1979.
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The update also includes new sizes, like a slim rectangle and mini square, and POP accessories that attach to the underside of those lids, like a leveler, scoops, date dial, and a brown sugar saver (a terra cotta disk to keep it from drying out!).
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The A-frame now houses a communal kitchen and lush living room, where velvet chairs, terra cotta jugs and a collection of National Geographic back issues (found in the attic, along with the snowmobile posters that hang in some rooms) complement the handsome stone fireplace.
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Freek's Mill has pulled together nice selections of wines from the country of Georgia, all made in the ancient way of using indigenous grapes like kisi and rkatsiteli, and fermenting and aging them in terra-cotta qvevris, amphora-like vats buried in the cool earth.
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I don't live on the Upper East Side, but my tour of Maison made me consider moving there just so I can sip cold-brew coffee while gazing out at Lexington Avenue from a soft, terra-cotta-colored couch ahead of a guided meditation class.
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In the case of the terra-cotta relief, the attribution is based on the strong similarities with a panel of the same subject done by Verrocchio for the so-called Silver Altar, which was commissioned by the cloth merchant's guild for the Baptistery of Florence.
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A comparison between the terra-cotta relief and the Silver Altar, which are exhibited side by side, might help shed some light on the question of whether Leonardo may have been involved in modeling some of the figures, a hypothesis recently raised by some scholars.
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He said he bought the portrait from a dealer in 2007 for about $19,000; the bust of St. Lawrence was sold in Amsterdam in 2003 for about 3000 euros; and the terra-cotta relief at auction in London in 1995 for 3,100 British pounds.
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With their winged lions guarding the treasure inside, their walls of tapestry brick, terra cotta cladding and accents, their interior murals connecting the building to its function and place in the community, and their geometric stained glass windows, Sullivan's banks instantly draw the eye.
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Christiansen, true to form, branded the property Flamingo Estate, complete with a logo made to look like a family crest that's weathered generations; the perimeter of the house is lined with dozens of terra-cotta pots, hand thrown by Moroccan craftsmen, engraved with tiny flamingos.
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At the bustling Union Square complex, he designed a concourse that connected the three subway lines that stop there and collaborated with the artist Mary Miss to highlight architectural remnants of the station's past, like the pillars and terra cotta tiles uncovered during the renovation.
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The front door, which has stained glass from 1726, opens to a grand entry with walls of stone from the Alpilles mountains and old terra-cotta tiles on the floor, as well as under-floor heating and vaulted ceilings, which continue throughout the ground level.
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It's the first solo show ever in the United States for this hinge figure between Donatello and the High Renaissance, and its 50 works — especially its sculptures of marble, bronze and terra cotta — ought to wake us up to the trailblazer right under our noses.
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Now they're opening their own gallery-cum-shop — an updated '50s cabin that sits on the photographer Jack Pierson's compound — carrying what Jay calls "tools of genuine purpose" (brightly striped Turkish towels, Mexican terra-cotta dishware) alongside potted cactuses and art objects and installations.
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Rising a stone's throw away, at 263 South Fifth Street, is an even more ambitious project, the Dime, a mixed-use development that will include retail space, offices and 177 studio and one-bedroom apartments in a terra-cotta tower designed by Fogarty Finger.
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Despite rigorous city building laws and a string of high-profile accidents, including the death of a woman killed by falling terra cotta in December, an examination by The New York Times found that building owners routinely flout rules and enforcement actions with no repercussions.
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Its then-Director General of Antiquities Maurice Chehab had hidden some objects in attempt to save them; the now partially melted and burned metal, glass, and terra cotta surfaces attest to his fast-thinking act of preservation that has allowed us to see some examples today.
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A pair of striking blue-, white- and terra cotta-colored earthenware vases from Delft in the early 1700s — designed in a Chinese pagoda style and meant to rival imported Chinese porcelain — to display tulips, the flower that prompted a mania in Europe during the 20000th century.
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Unlike Mr. Gravner, Mr. Radikon never gravitated toward amphorae, the ancient terra-cotta vessels that have undergone a revival stretching from the country of Georgia, where they are known as qvevri and have never stopped being used, to California and the rest of the winemaking world.
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Among Mr. Adjmi's condo projects are the brick-townhouse-like building at 465 Pacific Street in Boerum Hill; the metallic doppelgänger of an existing 1905 warehouse for the Sterling Mason at 71 Laight Street; and a building with decorative terra cotta details at 2200 West 232th Street.
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Superintendent Francesco Giambrone, a medical doctor by training who administers the Teatro, invites visitors to its terra-cotta and copper-clad rooftop, some 250 feet above street level (and reached by ladder from the eight-story-high backstage), for both the view and the parable it represents.
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Residential buildings sprouting up to higher altitudes include a 153-story shimmering ribbon at 100 East 53rd Street (another Foster and Partners project); a 64-story glass-and-terra-cotta tower at 138 East 50th Street; and a 49-story shard at 131 East 47th Street.
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A collage of paper-thin terra cotta sheets fashioned by the French artist Vincent Dubourg into a 16-foot-tall door is installed at the first-floor gallery, and lighted steel-mesh tree sculptures by the Spanish-born Nacho Carbonell sprout in the marble mosaic courtyard.
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The other pieces included an Apulian terra-cotta flask in the shape of an African head from the fourth century B.C.; an Ionian sculpture of a ram's head from the sixth century; and an attic aryballos, a vessel for oil or perfume, from the early fifth century.
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With its emphasis on terra cotta tomb figures — which Chinese people traditionally regard as inauspicious to own — and serene stone Buddhist sculpture, the Kurland collection could be viewed as reflecting a scholarly Westerner's taste, but there were plenty of Chinese admirers at the Monday night viewing.
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A recent example of this was the renovation of the historic Schofield Building in downtown Cleveland, which had previously been covered with a metal cladding, and had its original terra-cotta exterior restored, in turn becoming the Kimpton Schofield hotel, with apartments on the upper floors.
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But down the not-very-wide Duke Street in Mayfair here, the modestly sized Bowman Sculpture gallery has just opened "Rodin: The Birth of Modern Sculpture" (through July 250), an exhibition of 2000 works in bronze and terra cotta, as well as eight rarely seen drawings.
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Wiley's equestrian subject has a spiritual ancestor in a majestic ancient terra-cotta figure excavated in Niger, in 1985; it's a highlight of "Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara," in which the Met surveys fifteen centuries' worth of African treasures (opens Jan. 30).
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"One-Track Mind: Drawing the New York Subway" (Princeton Architectural Press) is the perfect companion for preoccupied New Yorkers who overlook the faiences, terra-cotta mosaics and other gewgaws originally inspired by the City Beautiful movement, and nowadays a productive diversion for riders impatiently awaiting overdue trains.
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The aesthetic is muted deluxe: walk-worn original oak floors, girthy terra-cotta vases full of petaled branches, a mix of stark and playful art, Campaspero limestone, and, on the low black coffee table, a gilded rat with gem eyes (by the artist Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt).
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Established in the 1980s, the 10 rooms — which between them house nearly 600 examples of art from the early 16th through the 19th centuries (a Renaissance terra-cotta bust, a Gothic Revival carved-oak chair made for the House of Lords) — were in need of reanimating.
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In April, city inspectors told the owner of 729 Seventh Avenue, a 17-story building just north of Times Square, that terra cotta pieces were missing from its facade and ordered the owner, Himmel + Meringoff Properties, to pay a $20143,250 fine and put up a sidewalk shed.
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A grand 19th-century terra-cotta-colored manor house on 19 acres near a wide curve of the Douro River, its 57 guest rooms have a serene, contemporary aesthetic —limestone, cork, oak, glass — rectangular soaking tubs and vineyard and river views; some villas have private pools and gardens.
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As testimony to their importance during the Renaissance, a massive glazed terra-cotta relief, "The Resurrection of Christ," by Giovanni della Robbia, dating from around 1524 and commissioned by the Antinoris, is a highlight of an exhibition of della Robbia works at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
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And Mr. Butoln, a public relations man, is a font of information, about not only this charming medieval town with terra-cotta roofs and Baroque fountains, but also the potential next first lady of the United States, who attended high school here as Melanja Knavs nearly 30 years ago.
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FLORENCE — The Museo dell'Opera del Duomo here presented two little-known 15th-century terra-cotta sculptures on Thursday as the possible work of Donatello and Verrocchio (with, perhaps, the help of Verrocchio's erstwhile assistant Leonardo da Vinci), proposed attributions that are expected to stir debate in Renaissance art scholarship.
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When he says "normal roof," he is almost certainly talking about slate, clay, or terra cotta roofing tiles, which are at the high end of the market and can cost up to 20 times as much as the dirt-cheap asphalt shingles that still adorn most American homes.
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Descending a flight of stairs to the two-car garage, you find a door that takes you into a lower-level family room or alternate master suite that includes a large room with a terra-cotta-trimmed fireplace, a bathroom with vintage tile and a washer and dryer.
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We can't see inside now but it is this extraordinarily baroque version of Art Nouveau, with all this beautiful glazed terra-cotta and three balconies that meld the walls into the ceiling into the stage, like a taut skin, so everything funnels an audience's attention onto the performers.
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Several thousand of the terra-cotta warriors are now on display in giant pits — the largest the size of an aircraft hangar — at the partly excavated tomb complex, which lies at the site of the Qin dynasty's ancient capital, Xianyang, about 22 miles east of present-day Xi'an.
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Sometime late on July 1, 2008, for reasons still not completely known, a terra cotta relief of the archangel St. Michael by the Renaissance master Andrea della Robbia came loose from its place above a doorway at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and plunged to the stone floor.
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At least one of these pieces is world-famous: a half-reclining terra-cotta figure, androgynous, headless, superbly detailed, and found by the archaeologists at the site of Djenné-Djeno, an ancient city in what is now Mali that was mysteriously abandoned around 1400 A.D. Whatever the crisis — political?
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Quilliam's first headquarters occupied the ground floor of a brick-and-terra-cotta rowhouse overlooking the verdure of Russell Square, practically the same view T.S. Eliot would have had when he worked at Faber & Faber, and just a block from two of the sites of the 22016/22015 attacks.
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The restaurant Salvation Taco uses the building's rooftop, which is surrounded by terra-cotta arches, one of which "frames the Empire State Building," said Curt Gathje, a former editor of the New York City Zagat guide who lives in Tudor City and writes a blog called Tudor City Confidential.
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But on the opposite end of the spectrum are extremely tight spaces, from the "Bicycle Sauna" designed by H3T Architects — which squeezes six relaxation-seekers into a transportable, heated pod — or "Birdhouse Rooftile" by Klaas Kuiken, which adapts a single terra-cotta roof tile into a conspicuous avian refuge.
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International Real Estate 21 Photos View Slide Show ' $7163 MILLION (2.6 MILLION EUROS) This seven-bedroom six-bathroom villa, built in 2002 on a 2.2-acre plot, has the thick, whitewashed walls, multiple patios, ornate grilled windows, hand-painted tiles and terra-cotta-tiled roof of a traditional Andalusian home.
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Customers came in steadily Thursday: one college filmmaker looking to rent mannequin limbs and torsos, a social worker who bought a terra-cotta Mayan statue for her garden and a Lebanese real estate tycoon who had paid thousands to buy a Hollywood sign that Mr. Metropolis was supposed to ship overseas.
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With lips set and eyes downcast, Verrocchio's painted terra-cotta bust of Christ — one of dozens of treasures in "Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. — projects confidence, resignation, weariness, compassion, devotion to duty, pain and an exalted kind of loneliness.
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Then amble along streets lined with bright blue and yellow buildings, dressed with terra cotta roofs and stained-glass windows and fringed with bougainvillea, en route to the Indo-Portuguese Museum, which houses relics and remnants from Kochi churches: Bibles, statues of Mary, and even a 16th-century teak altar.
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This is accomplished through a design that allows for a north-to-south breeze that is enhanced by 14,250 terra cotta louvers (that would, if placed end to end, stretch further than the length of Manhattan) and a perforated lower-level seating bowl that allows air to pass through underground pathways.
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Nevertheless, the island's appeal — not least due to its fertile soil, as evidenced in several terra-cotta votive offerings on view here — enticed many wealthy Greeks to its shores, bringing with them the traditions of fine Athenian marble sculptures and red-figure pottery associated with Greek art of the time.
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There are many other hidden treasures downtown like the now-shuttered Roxie Theater, the only theater built in downtown Los Angeles solely in Art Deco style; the Title Insurance and Trust Building, now being converted into modern offices; and the beige terra cotta Ninth & Broadway Building, an anchor of the revitalized retail core.
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In the fall of 2014, in a vast conference hall in the Ritz Carlton's Abama resort, a terra cotta red Moorish-styled compound, Garik Israelian, a Canarian astrophysicist, stood before 21970 science aficionados from all over the world, with music from Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" blasting from speakers all around.
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But now this death in Xi'an — the northwestern city famed for its ancient entombed terra-cotta warriors — has stirred protest and a nationwide roar of anger by people furious that lax building management can turn trivial acts, like riding an elevator, into fatal traps, news reports and Internet accounts said on Monday.
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Each has interlocking terra cotta roof tiles, French double-shuttered windows evenly spaced across the facade, ornate garlands of molded plasterwork and sheltered "five foot" connected walkways — a feature to protect pedestrians from rain or hot sun that was called for by Sir Stamford Raffles in Singapore's first town plan in 1822.
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The resort has a terra-cotta-roofed clubhouse, five pools, two hot tubs, a fitness center, tennis courts, twice-weekly water aerobics classes and a nine-hole putting course — all at the center of a maze of 407 lots where owners and renters park R.V.s that can cost more than $2 million.
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A terra-cotta bust by Simone Leigh, its gray-beige head topped by an Afro composed of blue porcelain cowrie shells, is a homage to a specific person: the choreographer Katherine Dunham, who incorporated African styles in modern American dance and opened a performing arts school in East St. Louis in the 1960s.
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Well, if the house happens to be a 700-year-old farmhouse in cypress-topped rolling hills straddling Umbria and Tuscany, a rock star may be tempted to forgo transgression and get with the wood roof beam, terra-cotta floors and decorative Deruta pottery plan, especially if his wife is doing the decorating.
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" — Maggie Lee, Variety "Beyond the casting and the ceaseless onslaught of diverse special effects, Zhang and his Hollywood screenwriters have delivered nothing more than a formulaic monster movie — albeit one transposed to a historically undefined China where generals dressed like terra-cotta warriors already have mastered anesthetics, air travel and American-accented English.
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In 2355, Ms. Vasiliu and Mr. Behrman bought a one-bedroom for $2698,2000 in their current building, which features terra-cotta detailing on its facade and animal mosaics in the lobby, then upgraded to a two-bedroom, which has a dining room and more than 248,2600 square feet, at the beginning of this year.
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Don't miss three terra-cotta horses, once used as offerings to India's agrarian gods, that now exemplify a link between art and the divine, and are accompanied by a contemporary photograph by Jitu Mishra that shows these horses in a ritual: a farmer's seeking of a blessing for his crops amid dozens of the figures.
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ANIMAL-SHAPED VESSELS FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD: FEASTING WITH GODS, HEROES, AND KINGS A disturbing terra-cotta mug in the shape of a donkey head, made in classical Greece and borrowed from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is one of nearly five dozen fascinating objects in this tightly focused show. Sept. 7-Jan.
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Burle Marx's home is host to his vast collection of Brazilian ceramics from the Vale do Jequitinhonha, a region in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, which includes massive clay vases, small round pots sprouting multiple heads, terra–cotta figurines of men and women in matching white outfits, and busts of women wearing veils.
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