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Parapets, spires, towers, and geometric cornices create multi-dimensional rooflines.
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Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Sep. 2024
Feminine touches of peach and more custom cornice boxes, using fabric from Eskayel, pop against the vibrant greenery outside the windows.
—Linne Halpern, Architectural Digest, 13 Sep. 2024
Stucchi Italia carefully restored the ceiling cornices on the first and third floors to their original state.
—Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
While there are many original details, such as crown moldings, cornices, ceiling motifs, wood floors, and stained glass windows, the home’s design is decidedly of-the-moment.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2024
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Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Sep. 2024
Feminine touches of peach and more custom cornice boxes, using fabric from Eskayel, pop against the vibrant greenery outside the windows.
—Linne Halpern, Architectural Digest, 13 Sep. 2024
Stucchi Italia carefully restored the ceiling cornices on the first and third floors to their original state.
—Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
While there are many original details, such as crown moldings, cornices, ceiling motifs, wood floors, and stained glass windows, the home’s design is decidedly of-the-moment.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2024
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Why wouldn’t the owner take the time to up-light the friezes?Sage Jessica Murphy, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024
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The smoothed limestone blocks and cobra frieze already found at the site may be hiding such an entrance.Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 27 Nov. 2024
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Like the Gran Trianon, Rosecliff has Ionic columns, French doors, and a multitiered entablature topped with intricate statues.Claudia Williams, Architectural Digest, 6 Aug. 2024
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Typically, colonnades form at the top and bottom of the flow (starting from the cooling surface) with a middle area of entablature (see above).Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2015
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Drench a Room in Color Paint the whole room lavender, walls, doors, architraves, fireplaces, and all; the effect is brilliantly bold and ultra-contemporary, as evidenced by Sawyers’ Dupont Circle project.Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 May 2023
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The entire government believes that school is a fundamental architrave of our society.Irene Dominioni, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
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While Syrians in the capital looked forward to a new beginning after Assad’s ouster, the mood was more somber along Beirut’s Mediterranean promenade, where residents shared cautious hopes for the new year, reflecting on a country still reeling from war and ongoing crises.Ghaith Alsayed, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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New Year's Eve weather: What to expect Auckland, New Zealand New Zealand's capital Wellington and its largest city of Auckland -- both located on the country's North Island -- welcomed 2025 at 6 a.m. ET.David Brennan, ABC News, 31 Dec. 2024
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Though more stately in its setting of classical pilasters and marble floors, the lobby El Bar del Majestic is pretty hopping too with live piano music.John Oseid, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Rising above the great staircase is a builder’s catalogue of pilasters, cornices, corners, lion’s heads, dentils, robed muses, medallions, scrolls, and arched niches.Justin Davidson, Curbed, 10 Dec. 2024
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Each of these pillars of the wellness program are incorporated into the guests’ stay at the Kneipp Hotel Hammerschmiede outside of Salzburg.Brett Braley, Robb Report, 21 Dec. 2024
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When constructed, the stone circle was aligned with the sun, and to this day, thousands of people gather to witness the moment the sun peeks perfectly through its pillars.Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024
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Marcus Rashford remains the big story at Old Trafford, a player who has probably generated more column inches than any other in England over the last decade.Darren Richman, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
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That's when the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed, after a container ship struck one of its support columns.Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 21 Dec. 2024
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Around the year 1730, church leaders hired a congregation member named John Gibbs to paint 16 angels on the interior upper arches.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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The round arches were repeated on the main facade around entrances and in the panel surrounding the stained glass rose window.Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Dec. 2024
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“Cornice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cornice. Accessed 7 Jan. 2025.
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