Sentences with phrase «tchotchkes for»

Is the art world mostly producing «inoffensive tchotchkes for billionaires?»

Before 2009's Credit CARD Act, most student credit cards attracted new customers by setting up shop at campus events and trading small tchotchkes for applications.

It felt like the Titanic with newly rearranged desk chairs on the Titanic, except they had put out a bunch of new tchotchkes for decor.

Not exact matches

In an outbuilding, one of Ouimette's colleagues is supervising set - up of a holiday pop - up shop stocked with donated ornaments and tchotchkes (Roses for Autism is trying to diversify its revenue streams).

With Shift My Gift, recipients can donate the money Aunt Gladys wanted to spend on them instead of having to find space for yet another useless tchotchke.

Though the plans for her move with boyfriend Adam (whose sister heard the news through the blog) were captured in our May Mag Club recap, we were surprised to find that she boxed up her vast number of tchotchkes and relegated them to the one not - so - huge cabinet in her new space.

The plan: First, we'd hit Chinatown for dim sum (we like MingHin) and check out tchotchkes in the gift emporiums.

Move your themed oven mitts, candles, bowls of baubles, throw pillows and assorted sparkly tchotchkes around weekly, daily, HOURLY for more holiday fun.

Even your furniture is simply what you need and your house isn't cluttered with tchotchkes (well, for the most part; toys are a whole other story).

Many seniors live in smaller spaces than they used to, with less use for new tchotchkes and collectibles.

In the ad, a pajama - clad couple in a tchotchke - choked living room smile as they celebrate the online party they just held for 11 people in nine different states «and only had to wash one glass.»

They're cheaper to furnish and have less room for clutter, so you can't be tempted to buy every tchotchke that pops up and catches your fancy.

The Thai Craft Market at Amarin Plaza, located on the third floor of the mall, used to be a definite go - to market for Thai trinkets and tchotchkes.

A surreal mix of Western tchotchkes watch over the rooms like scarecrows — a bust of Iron Man, a replica of Michelangelo's David, and a glossy poster of Lebron James — a reminder of which culture the artists are meant to produce for.

Hearing him use that bass to say a sly goodbye to a fellow videogame badass is worth more than any unlockable cosmetic tchotchke you can get as a reward for completing the quest.

Often Link carries multiple swords, shields, bows, arrows, shirts, boots, musical instruments, and any number of fetch quest tchotchkes, all while running for miles on end.

I still swear that a portmanteau is a piece of furniture, usually found in your great aunt's foyer for the display of bric - a-brac, knicknacks, tchotchkes, geegaws, and gimcracks.

Work for sale, at a healthy price, translates into mostly painting, with sculpture little more than tchotchkes.

Highlights include American artist Jeff Koons Hon RA, whose figures for his 1980s «Banality» series were drawn from cheap tchotchkes; Frank Benson, whose Human Statue (Jessie)(2011) reproduces, using high - end digital technology, a stunning simulacrum of dancer and musician Jessie Gold; and newly elected Academician Rebecca Warren, known for her plaster figures filtered through other artists from Giacometti to cartoonist Robert Crumb.

11/16 Pierre Gouthière, «Virtuoso Gilder at the French Court» Through 2/19, the Frick Collection If excess is the harbinger of downfall, then this is an awfully well - timed look at the gold tchotchkes that master gilder Gouthière crafted for Louises XV and XVI.

He is known for blending the theory of abstraction with the banality of tchotchkes and household items, amounting to acid - colored mashups that will soon take over the museum's second floor.

But one can't help wishing for a bit of handy nomenclature to categorize the abundance of recent work in which rigorously formal propositions achieve an odd, uneasy detente with, well, junk — tchotchkes, cast - offs, discount - bin merchandise.

The current dynamic results in the much - begrudged and detrimental truth that the art world at large shrugs its shoulders at Santa Fe, victim of the perception of Santa Fe as an art destination only for tchotchkes and couch - matching canvases, a perception that glosses over the vibrant and thoughtful art on the ground.

Fish utilizes colored glassware, crystal tchotchkes, patterned textiles, and vibrant floral bouquets merely as a surface for her energetic exploration of the properties of paint.

The new study did, which means that in addition to accounting for flights, ground transportation, and hotels, it attempted to factor emissions associated with manufacturing all those tchotchke you're buying at the airport and those surf»n' turf dinners you're enjoying by the beach.

Ikea has found that customers are using it more for storing «ornaments, tchotchkes and the odd coffee - table tome.»

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This tchotchke clearly worked for the national labor and employment law firm Littler Mendelson.

Amongst the tchotchkes I received were a few gifts I was thrilled to get: a stovetop espresso maker, some capuccino mugs, and two books I've been hoping someone would buy for me: Garner's Modern American Usage and A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage (also by Garner).

Set off neutral tchotchkes against a contrasting storage box or group together objects in similar colours for serious impact.

Instead of lugging it to a new home, replace it with some more elevated shelving that's big enough for your books and your tchotchkes alike.

For more organization tips, you can read my Home Organization 101 series, but for this post we're focusing more on decor with a function, since you may not want to fill up what little space you have with knick knacks and tchotchkFor more organization tips, you can read my Home Organization 101 series, but for this post we're focusing more on decor with a function, since you may not want to fill up what little space you have with knick knacks and tchotchkfor this post we're focusing more on decor with a function, since you may not want to fill up what little space you have with knick knacks and tchotchkes.

Consider the seashell hues or seascape tchotchkes that are paired with chrome finishes and sleek lines or the advent of live moss bathmats with frosted glass shower doors for their backdrop.