Sentences with phrase «like venetian»

The garden walls were designed to look like Venetian plaster and fabricated using a weather - resistant custom mixed product from Germany.

Make the room special Invest in a signature item like a Venetian chandelier or a unique piece of furniture that gives you great pleasure and also lends personality to the room.

Like the Venetian craftsmen of antiquity who mixed leftover marble chips with mortar to create seamless flooring, Alon layers natural elements like river rocks and semiprecious gems to add color and texture, before placing the discs atop hand - hammered 100 percent recycled sterling silver.

Like its Venetian role model, São Paulo used to host national presentations as well as international exhibitions held under the direction of rotating chief curators.

Like the Venetian, Palazzo has a mobile sports betting app you can use all over the property.

Like the Venetian explorer for whom it's named, the Web site at marcopolo-education.org travels to faraway places and finds the treasure of knowledge.

New presenter Mairéad Ronan joins regular host Joe Lindsay (far left) for a new season of the travel show by paying a visit to Las Vegas, where Mairéad takes a gondola ride along something that looks remarkably like a Venetian canal, Joe flies over the Grand Canyon in a helicopter, and they dine at the famous Bellagio and tour the neon museum.

I love that the line has expanded to shoes this season and that most of the collection is in velvet, like the Venetian Loafers.

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Robertson described his dream to the Guardian: «I was standing at a window with venetian blinds just like the actual gas chamber, and the blinds opened up and I could see a crib in the middle of the room.

While I wish Ring offered some sort of entry - level free cloud video storage option, I really like that every Video Doorbell 2 purchase comes with easy - to - remove face plates in different color finishes: satin nickel and venetian.

He scornfully quotes a few lines of Othello's account of the «magical» wooing and remarks, «This was sufficient to make the Black - amoor White, and reconcile all, tho» there had been a Cloven - foot into the bargain»; and he is outraged that a white Venetian like Iago should be depicted as a conniving liar: «He is no Black - amoor Souldier, so we may be sure he should be like other Souldiers of our acquaintance.»

«At times», says Howse, «the book reads like a Gothic novel of the more salacious kind, with wooden dildoes and a Venetian confessor - seducer sitting «like a great Turk in his seraglio».

I am a Venetian girl living in Sweden, and I absolutely adore this mix of Chioggia beet (tastes like home to me!

The Venetian version sounds like a real «passe - partout».

MBF would like to thank the Venetian / Palazzo, Southern Wine and Spirits of Nevada and Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches for being sponsors of the 2015 Swing Session Las Vegas Celebrity Golf Classic.

Venetian trader and explorer Marco Polo said that one of the most surprising sights during his travels through Asia in the 13th century was the Chinese practice of burning a strange, black rock for heat — and the mountains along the Silk Road that smoldered due to underground coal fires, like the ones burning throughout the country today.

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Fort Worth Weekly has named Lola's the «Best Music Venue,» hosting musicians like Sarah Hobbs, Reid Farris Band, Cut Throat Finches, and Venetian Sailors.

As you know, original Cinerama screens were like vertical Venetian blinds, all very tall slats.

A glance in the rear - view mirror (no wing mirrors) is like looking at the Welsh landscape through a Venetian blind.

The Indulgence theme's seats are covered in Venetian leather and Alcantara cloth, in hues like Truffle and Ganache, finished with Ziricote wood accents.

«If you like your mysteries to be atmospheric and character - driven, you will love the Venetian novels of Donna Leon!

Praising Donna Leon's international best - selling Commissario Guido Brunetti detective series as one of the top to savor, Time raved that «no one knows the labyrinthine world of Venice or the way favoritism and corruption shape Italian life like Leon's Brunetti... the thoughtful Venetian cop with a love of food, an outspoken wife, and a computer - hacker secretary who plays man Friday to his detective.»

Venetian Curiosities is beautifully illustrated and, like Handel's Bestiary, it comes with a CD.

With its canals traveled by singing gondoliers, the Venetian is a fine place to people - watch, whether at restaurants like Otto Enoteca or on a bench with a gelato under the convincing sky that turns from day to dusk.

Surrounded by many traditional villages, like Nopigia with its delightful ancient stone theatre and Kalathenes with the Venetian villa known as the Rotonda, you are sure to find a piece of Kissamos» long history.

Hotels like the Cipriani, which sits on a private island accessible only by boat, offer privacy and seclusion, while icons like the Gritti Palace and Hotel Danieli offer visitors five - star accommodation and opulent Venetian surroundings.

We crossed the Venetian Lagoon and drew into the city's Santa Lucia station just as the sun was setting, swapped social media details with our fellow passengers, and, with great regret, said goodbye to Riccardo, who had pampered us, to use Christie's words, «like a zoo panda.»

A tranquil beach island, with cheaper accommodation options than other parts of the Venetian Riviera, it's the spot to indulge your inner beach - bum while being close to major attractions like San Marco.

But, to experience Genoa at its most enchanting, wander around the tangle of narrow alleyways named «Carruggi» which unfurl behind the port and lead to impressive palaces like the Palazzo di San Giorgo, formerly one of Europe's first banks and before that a prison for Venetian captives such as Marco Polo.

All the options have king sized beds, jewel - like furnishings in an eclectic Venetian style, marble bathrooms, and cosmetics from Acqua di Parma.

If you would like to live the atmosphere of an old Venetian Palace of the XIII, Al Palazzo Lion Morosini rooms, historical residence, will be content you.

The island is also full of beautiful Venetian towns and picturesque villages like Sissi, and an equal proportion of stunning, winding roads that lead you to unexpected historic sites or tavernas full of delicious, authentic food.

Venetian lamps and fabrics along with locally crafted materials like terrazzo and glass mosaics allude to the property's history and location and provide a certain romantic comfort.

Palazzina Grassi is more like a private club, a combination of a hotel and very unique spaces where guests can live as a Venetian.»

This might seem like stating the obvious, but it's so often overlooked by newcomers to watercolour painting and underlines the point I made when adding the «wrong» sky to Gill Farquharson's Venetian scene.

Paintings like «Venetian Red Riding Hood» show mastery — skillful but non-fussy drawing, clever manipulation of light, beautiful color, and an expressive handling of paint.

The 1977 show also included female Old Masters of established reputation: Renaissance painters like the Cremonese aristocrat Sophonisba Anguissola and the Bolognese Lavinia Fontana; eighteenth - century professionals like the pastel portraitist Rosalba Carriera, whose Venetian studio was once as essential a stop on the Grand Tour as that of her male colleague Pompeo Batoni in Rome, and the Swiss - born Angelika Kauffmann, represented by a self - portrait that showed the dark - haired, porcelain - skinned beauty making a definitive choice between painting and music.

In writing dedicated to his paintings a reader will find frequent reference to Northern Renaissance and Venetian art, Persian miniatures, as well as more modern touchstones like Francis Bacon and Willem de Kooning.

Soon after, there is a move towards the human form, first with Pawel Althamer's casts of Venetians, stumbling and falling apart like a modern - day Burghers of Calais, and then one of the biennale's many highlights, a show - within - a-show curated by Cindy Sherman.

Situated only five minutes walk from the bustle of Piazza San Marco, but in an area that feels like a million miles away, Ristorante Locale is, as the name suggests, a secret the Venetians keep closely guarded.

And frost, produced by ancient fridge motors, enveloping sheets of metal like a virus, evokes the whiteness of Venetian marble reflecting the midday sun.

Luisa Lambri's elegant, often monochromatic photographs of isolated architectural details like facades, corridors, and venetian blind — covered windows could represent any number of buildings anywhere.

Like many other shows, it had political content but it also came with feeling — for the underappreciated and underpaid Venetian labor force that makes the lagoon city such a lovely place for tourists like us, represented by way of strange and beautiful objects made from broken bits of old Murano glLike many other shows, it had political content but it also came with feeling — for the underappreciated and underpaid Venetian labor force that makes the lagoon city such a lovely place for tourists like us, represented by way of strange and beautiful objects made from broken bits of old Murano gllike us, represented by way of strange and beautiful objects made from broken bits of old Murano glass.

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