Sentences with phrase «as ornamental»

Traditionally used to store dinnerware or as an ornamental addition to the home, our sideboards come in a range of classic & contemporary designs.

It was introduced into British gardens way back in the 1940s as an ornamental garden plant for upmarket and high - society homes.

For example, innovative landscape solutions such as ornamental fencing, clean fill and natural vegetative elements can be utilized in place of conventional capping.

Until then, Aram had thought of the patterns as ornamental if not decorative.

Guest curator Kamin Rapaport positions sixty - six sculptures and installations — antihierarchical juxtapositions of appropriated materials, such as ornamental molding, fabric, and discarded timber — and works on paper, all made between 1928 and 1988 (the year of the artist's death), against an archival backdrop in which Nevelson's struggles as a Russian Jew growing up in WASP - y Rockland, Maine, figure prominently.

Within an oeuvre that has sought to redefine the nature of flat art through a variety of media, these abstract works are complex in their materiality, caught somewhere between painting and printing whilst simultaneously confronting the viewer as ornamental, almost architectural constructs.

The first three ground - floor rooms trace Rodin's beginnings as a sculptor, from an early portrait of his pinch - faced father Jean - Baptiste Rodin (1860)-- the first sculpture he kept — to a terracotta bust of a Young Girl with Flowers on her Hat (1870), a vision as pretty as a Fragonard from his period in Belgium as an ornamental sculptor.

«We've used the drawing across all the collateral, applying many of the architectural details such as ornamental borders and balustrades as counterpoints to the graphic design of the hotel's identity.»

The practice of using hyper - sexualized women as ornamental objects has been especially brazen in the racing game genre.

For a side - by - side couples massage, book the VIP Suite with Chinese - inspired accents such as ornamental screens and antique wood panels, plus a private Jacuzzi.

Fig. 6 Non-native rubber tree that has been planted as an ornamental.

All of a sudden, thousands of people were breeding dogs as ornamental luxury items.

They are pretty interesting looking and they are now available at places like Cub Foods and Ikea as ornamental house plants.

Getting back to the ancient times, it is believed that Shih Tzu dogs were kept as ornamental company dogs in Tibet for more than a millennium.

Minor animal species include pets other than dogs and cats such as ornamental aquarium and garden pond fish, birds, reptiles and small mammals.

Common foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), a native of Europe, is naturalized in parts of North America, and grown as an ornamental plant in many gardens.

Sago palms are naturally found in tropical / subtropical environments; they are also used as ornamental Bonsai houseplants.

The two co-located exhibitions housed some 129 vendors, from 21 different countries, representing all facets of the pet care industry and the aquatic world such as ornamental fish, invertebrates and plants and accessories showcases.

The displays of the company Plastic Logic are already in use in energy - saving display elements and as an ornamental element in jewelry.

«When they do appear they are usually treated as ornamental rather than substantive aspects of our children's school experience.

The plant grows wild nationwide and is favored by gardeners as an ornamental.

The Infinity Gauntlet has also been making the rounds in other forms, like as an ornamental statue and even a really expensive Bluetooth speaker.

An Eastern sensibility informs this modern silhouette as ornamental prints and sculpted separates are elegantly constructed.

In France, castor is grown as an ornamental plant because of its large and lovely foliage.2

A tropical perennial shrub, achiote, annatto, or lipstick tree, is grown mostly as an industrial crop, although in India, where conditions are conducive to its propagation, it is also cultivated as an ornamental plant.

Due to the pleasant look of fenugreek, it is also kept by some as an ornamental plant.

Commonly grown as ornamental border plants, marigolds are hardy annual plants which have a distinctive smell which mosquitoes, and some gardeners, find particularly offensive.

nana) exists, and it's used mainly as an ornamental plant or a bonsai specimen.

Fennel's primary uses remain nutritional, but it is also grown widely as an ornamental element in temperate - climate gardens for its bright color and sweet fragrance.

Blueberry shrubs are also used as ornamental plants for hedge borders and wind blocks.

Spanish colonizers who brought the fruit back to Europe in the 1500s were so impressed with it that it quickly became subject to international trade, primarily as an ornamental plant, rumored aphrodisiac, and Italian sauce.

This plant is indigenous to the Mediterranean, Eastern Africa, and India, but it's been used as an ornamental plant for a long time, so it's found all over the world.

Kudzu Tchaikovsky Sushi Native to Europe and Asia, the mute swan was introduced to the U.S. as an ornamental species.

The tree has moved around the world as an ornamental plant and has become invasive in several states and countries, including Florida, Texas and Hawaii as well as Australia, New Zealand and some Caribbean islands.

Its unique beauty - large green leaves presenting white veining and a purple underside - is the reason why this plant has been introduced in public and private gardens as an ornamental plant.

Known as Koster's curse, or Clidemia hirta, the weed was brought to Hawaii in the 1940s as an ornamental plant.

«My guess is that once hunting became unimportant to subsistence, people continued to make arrowheads to keep them as ornamental objects, to exchange for trade, or to pass on to their children,» says Shen.

Another variety, which was first used exclusively as an ornamental, is «Floral Gem», with its beautiful orange - red pods.

There is evidence of peppers being grown in Spain as an ornamental plant as early as the late 1400's.

And as early as 1493, these peppers were being grown in Spain, at first only as ornamental plants, but soon for use in cooking, too.

The dill plant is a culinary herb that produces yellow flowers and feathery leaves that are valued for their flavor, as well as their ornamental contribution to gardens.

They are used primarily as ornamental chiles.

«NuMex Mirasol» is used both as an ornamental on wrearhs and a ground powder in cooking.

Planted in 1832 as an ornamental, coffee in Kona took hold as many wished to form commercial ventures.

Similarly, some of treat King Jesus as ornamental royalty.

These gods of the boutique can come from anywhere — native North American religion, the Indian subcontinent, some Pre-Raphaelite grove shrouded in Celtic twilight, cunning purveyors of otherwise worthless quartz, pages drawn at random from Robert Graves, Aldous Huxley, Carl Jung, or that redoubtable old Aryan, Joseph Campbell — but where such gods inevitably come to rest are not so much divine hierarchies as ornamental étagères, where their principal office is to provide symbolic representations of the dreamier sides of their votaries» personalities.

Peppers can double as ornamentals, so tuck some into flowerbeds and borders.

McMahon's seed house offered eight Capsicum varieties around 1804, but they were called «Annual Flowers» and sold as ornamentals.

Unless you're of a certain age, the only chestnuts you know are probably the modest Asian types imported as ornamentals.

They are somewhat popular as ornamentals.