decorative

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This stubborn defiance is also present in Chambers’ commitment to the “golden age” of decorative art.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

More than 400 small manufacturing clusters here make glass items ranging from car headlamp covers and bangles to light shades, decorative items and chandeliers, feeding a domestic market worth over $200mn.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

“Gold retains its warm glow no matter what happens to it,” says John Stuart Gordon, the curator of American decorative arts at Yale, who is writing a book on gold in America.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Meanwhile, I inherited a mortgage, along with several guns, broken exercise equipment, cabinets full of expired pills and 34 decorative fish.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

One brownstone was rotund—like a jolly, well-fed grandfather—with a curved facade and decorative curlicues above round, owlish windows.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser