Next to the restaurant is the grand, well-upholstered lobby bar, a library-style room for familiar cocktails.
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It's done up like the well-upholstered parlor in a high-quality bordello in an American frontier town.
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The Irish Rep's style of revival — well-upholstered, respectful, with little social or political slant — is part of the problem.
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Yet Mr Aciman's well-upholstered prose, his polished, aphoristic dialogue and discreetly luxurious surroundings, often distance the reader from the raw passions that propel his tales.
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But the routine Emirates flight that took off from Karachi last month was notable for the presence of Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's former president, sitting in the well-upholstered seats in the front.
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The Zodiac Room, on the seventh floor, is the department store's fine-dining restaurant, an elegant, well-upholstered room with a bar, and serving some specialties like popovers with strawberry butter, and chopped salad.
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Off the Menu L'Appart This well-upholstered 28-seat enclave within Le District, the sprawl of markets and restaurants in Battery Park City, is designed to suggest an informal dinner party — hence the name, a shortening of the French for apartment.
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In a luxurious, well-upholstered setting, Mr. Zakarian is taking advantage of Western ingredients, including Santa Barbara sea urchin and Dungeness crab, on a seasonal menu that includes baby artichoke frito, black bass, John Dory with spring garlic purée and Rancho Gordo bean salad.
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For my troubles, I got attacked by leading intellectuals like Bill Kristol, who accused me and my ilk for having a well-upholstered settee and a well-appointed office (my office is actually kind of a mess and has nothing upholstered of any note in it).
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In the current issue of the Weekly Standard, Kristol, shot back in an essay called "Donald and Decadence": There's no reason to believe most D.C. lobbyists would recognize such a threat if it strolled into their well-appointed offices and plopped itself down on one of their well-upholstered settees.
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Tea tray for Christofle, 1903, Musée d'Orsay, Paris Paul Follot's early designs reflect the Gothic Revival, with foliate motifs. Follot acquired a taste for wooden motifs and carvings from Grasset. The stylized motifs of baskets of fruit or of flowers were typically carved from solid wood by Laurent Malclès. Follot made well-upholstered pieces in gently curved and ornamented giltwood frames.
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" Guy Lodge of Variety called it "a overweening, maddening but not inconsiderable directorial debut for actor Brady Corbet, which plays as something of a straight-faced parody of a well-upholstered historical biopic." In his review for Eye For Film, Damon Wise said, "It sounds like a slow-paced chamber piece, and some scenes are, but a brilliant framing device involving a stunning orchestral score by, of all people, Scott Walker gives the film a nerve-wracking urgency." John Bleasdale of Cine Vu gave it five out five stars by saying that "(it) is a dark, enigmatic piece of work that hovers between visionary greatness and petty domestic triviality. Corbet's inaugural stint behind the camera marks a stunning debut and the finest film at Venice thus far.
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W. A. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, cond. Bernard Haitink, EMI CD, CDS 49753-2, 1988 The "affecting delicacy" of Ileana Cotrubas's Susanna was the only element of Karajan's album that he singled out for praise. José van Dam had sung Figaro well, but not as well as when he had recorded the opera under Neville Marriner for Philips.W. A. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, cond. Neville Marriner, Philips CD, 416 370-2, 1986 The Countess of Anna Tomowa-Sintow was "less secure of pitch and tone" than Haitink's Felicity Lott's. The playing of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra was "too comfortable and well-upholstered" for an opera that would be heard to better advantage played on period instruments. Karajan had perpetrated a reading of the opera that was "unstable", and in which "speeds are often eccentric and the excellent cast seems cowed by the conductor's dominance".
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