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D'decor

D’Decor’s operates four manufacturing plants which are located in Tarapur, near Mumbai.


Al. Ringling Theatre

The decor of the auditorium is said to have derived from Ange-Jacques Gabriel's opera house of 1763-1770 in the Palace of Versailles but some believe it to be at least equally based on Victor Louis's 1764 Grand-Théâtre in Bordeaux.

Appliance Art, Inc.

is an American company specializing in transformational decor, mainly for kitchens.

Balthasar Permoser

Permoser collaborated as a modeller in the Dresden workshops of Johann Melchior Dinglinger, court jeweller to Augustus; notable examplers of this kind of collaboration are the two sculptures of Moors by Permoser, encrusted with jewelled decor by Dinglinger, in the Neues Grünes Gewölbe, Dresden.

Blue-plate special

Mystery writer Abigail Padgett's second novel about amateur sleuth Blue McCarron is titled The Last Blue Plate Special; no meals here, the blue plates are part of the decor at a clinic where patients are dying mysteriously.

Café Hafa

Opened in 1921, the cafe has retained its 1920s style of decor and through the years has been visited by numerous writers and singers, from Paul Bowles and William S. Burroughs, to The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

Chaowai Subdistrict

Two KTV shops, plenty of restaurants, and the decor, make this part of the city appear like night doesn't affect its activity.

Crichel House

The Bastard family collaborated to enlarge the shell of Crichel in 1771-73; the new interiors were designed by James Wyatt (1772–80), with painted decor by Biagio Rebecca, chimneypieces by John Devall, and furniture by John Linnell (1778–79) and Ince and Mayhew (1768–78).

Drummond Street, Edinburgh

The property is now an Italian restaurant, the decor of which is in homage to Stevenson's Treasure Island.

Embassy Court

The longer-term proposal for a basement swimming pool remained, and other ideas suggested at this time included a gymnasium, reinstatement of the original 1930s foyer decor including a mural by Edward McKnight Kauffer, and the conversion of one flat into a 1930s-style showpiece.

Fern bar

Fern bar is an American slang term for an upscale or preppy (or yuppie) bar or tavern catering to singles usually decorated with ferns or other greenery, as well as such decor as fake Tiffany lamps.

Garden Ridge

Garden Ridge is a privately held home decor retail chain based in Plano, Texas.

Gumps

Gump's, a luxury American home furnishings and home décor retailer, founded in San Francisco in 1861

Hôtel de la Marine

The magnificent interior decor by Jacques Gondouin, inspired by Piranesi, is an important step forward in 18th century taste, but was profoundly distorted by changes under the Second French Empire, although the grands salons d'apparat and the Galerie Dorée still maintain some of the original elements.

Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill

The Churchill, its décor, facilities and in-house outlets reference Sir Winston Churchill and the local area's history.

Ivar's

Nard Jones remarked in 1972 that Haglund was "not afraid to reflect Puget Sound tradition in the decor of his restaurants, whereas others of his profession seem intent on making their patrons forget where they are."

Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries

A community of Bukharan Jews was also found in the city of Peshawar, where many buildings in the old city feature a Star of David as exterior decor as a sign of the Hebrew origins of its owners.

Lithuanians in the Chicago area

Like Chicago's Polish Cathedral's, these churches were statements meant to recall an era when the Grand Duchy of Lithuania spanned from the Baltic to the Black Sea, having been built at a time when Lithuania was under Russian occupation and incorporating Lithuanian imagery in its decor such as the Vytis to invoke pride in Lithuanian culture.

MV Bretagne

Bretagnes interior was furnished in typical 'Breton' decor featuring original artwork by the Scottish painter Alexander Goudie.

Niccolò dell'Abbate

Within two years of his arrival he was drawing a project for a decor commemorating Anne de Montmorency (preparatory drawing at the Louvre).

Parliament House, Hobart

In 1940 the current House of Assembly Chamber was constructed, and features a green decor, seating and carpet, with blackwood wooden paneling around the walls.

Santa Susana High School

KROQ outfitted the event with beach decor, snacks, Stryker as DJ, and a 2-hour long set by Blink-182.

Scott Pask

Of his work, Ben Brantley in The New York Times wrote: "Scott Pask’s exposed-wall set is the perfect playground for a world in which imagination (aided by chemical substances) provides the décor." in reference to Hair.

Singerie

In France the most famous such rococo decor are Christophe Huet's Grande Singerie and Petite Singerie decors at the Château de Chantilly; in England the French painter Andieu de Clermont is also known for his singeries: the most famous decorates the ceiling of the Monkey Room at Monkey Island Hotel, located on Monkey Island in Bray-on-Thames, England.

SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse

The décor of ship was in the style of Baroque revival, overseen by Johann Poppe, who carried out all of the interior decoration.

Test and learn

Pier 1 Imports, a retail chain specializing in home decor and furnishings, uses testing to measure the effectiveness of search advertising campaigns.

The Yellow Book

According to Stanley Weintraub, "The color of The Yellow Book was an appropriate reflection of the 'Yellow Nineties', a decade in which Victorianism was giving way among the fashionable to Regency attitudes and French influences; For yellow was not only the decor of the notorious and dandified pre-Victorian Regency, but also of the allegedly wicked and decadent French novel".

Villa Lusthusporten

The building was sold to the Cork council Hjalmar Wicander in 1898 and he commissioned architect Carl Möller to remodel the house to its present appearance of a Baroque Revival architecture with Art Nouveau decor considered fashion at the time.

Yvonne George

Yvonne George moved into a ground-floor apartment in Neuilly with desirable decor, where she received many artists and men of letters.


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