Decorative
adjective
Made to look attractive or to add beauty.
The room was filled with decorative cushions and throws.
Often appears as...
- decorative items
- decorative patterns
adjective
Made to look attractive or to add beauty.
The room was filled with decorative cushions and throws.
Often appears as...
- decorative items
- decorative patterns
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Pro Tip 1/3Visual Enhancement
Decorative objects are not essential but enhance the appearance.
Decorative lighting isn't needed for brightness but adds ambiance.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Functional
Items termed 'decorative' often lack a practical function.
The decorative vase can't hold water, it's just for display.
Pro Tip 3/3Aesthetic Appeal
Decorative describes something that's intended to make something else look pleasant.
She wore a decorative scarf that added color to her outfit.
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Rob Forbes: Ways of...
a sense of correctness in the world and some visual delight in the knowledge that the building will probably never look as good as this simple industrial scaffolding that is there to serve. Down the road, there was another building, a nice visual horizontal, vertical elements, little decorative lines
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Why glass towers are bad...
and they are choking our cities and killing off public space. We tend to think of a facade as being like makeup, a decorative layer applied at the end to a building that's effectively complete. But just because a facade is superficial doesn't mean it's not also deep. Let me give you an example
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Is there a difference...
gold jewelery or wrought iron gates, would be known communally as artisans, and their works considered minor or decorative arts, connoting an inferior status and solidifying the distinction between art and craft that still persists in the Western world.
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What makes tattoos...
or trendy youth fads. But while tattoo styles come and go, and their meaning has differed greatly across cultures, the practice is as old as civilization itself. Decorative skin markings have been discovered in human remains all over the world,
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Bran Ferren: To create...
plus resiliency in the face of near-universal criticism and rejection. In our home, art was everywhere. It was like oxygen, around us and necessary for life. As I watched him paint, Dad taught me that art was not about being decorative,
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Ancient Egypt 101 PIPE...
pictorial characters it was used to inscribe monuments and pottery and predominantly served a decorative or ceremonial purpose soon after another ancient form of writing called hieratic developed out of the hieroglyphic system
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TEDWomen 2015 in review...
invasive aquatic weed so basically what she's doing is she's harvesting the water hyacinth drying it out and then weaving it into like beautiful decorative objects now my question for a channel is can you do this with other
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A strategy for...
the medical examiner's office, carrying the body bag holding her husband, dropped it down a flight of stairs, crashing into a decorative end table. I will never forget the sound of her voice when she looked at me and said,
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Roxane Gay: Confessions...
We can spend our box office dollars elsewhere when movies don't treat women as anything more than decorative objects. We can stop supporting professional sports where the athletes treat their partners like punching bags.
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The complex geometry of...
to produce works that are intricate, decorative and pleasing to the eye. And these craftsmen prove just how much is possible with some artistic intuition, creativity, dedication and a great compass and ruler.
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Rob Forbes: Ways of...
a sense of correctness in the world and some visual delight in the knowledge that the building will probably never look as good as this simple industrial scaffolding that is there to serve. Down the road, there was another building, a nice visual horizontal, vertical elements, little decorative lines
Video examples
Why glass towers are bad...
and they are choking our cities and killing off public space. We tend to think of a facade as being like makeup, a decorative layer applied at the end to a building that's effectively complete. But just because a facade is superficial doesn't mean it's not also deep. Let me give you an example
Video examples
Is there a difference...
gold jewelery or wrought iron gates, would be known communally as artisans, and their works considered minor or decorative arts, connoting an inferior status and solidifying the distinction between art and craft that still persists in the Western world.
Video examples
What makes tattoos...
or trendy youth fads. But while tattoo styles come and go, and their meaning has differed greatly across cultures, the practice is as old as civilization itself. Decorative skin markings have been discovered in human remains all over the world,
Video examples
Bran Ferren: To create...
plus resiliency in the face of near-universal criticism and rejection. In our home, art was everywhere. It was like oxygen, around us and necessary for life. As I watched him paint, Dad taught me that art was not about being decorative,
Video examples
Ancient Egypt 101 PIPE...
pictorial characters it was used to inscribe monuments and pottery and predominantly served a decorative or ceremonial purpose soon after another ancient form of writing called hieratic developed out of the hieroglyphic system
Video examples
TEDWomen 2015 in review...
invasive aquatic weed so basically what she's doing is she's harvesting the water hyacinth drying it out and then weaving it into like beautiful decorative objects now my question for a channel is can you do this with other
Video examples
A strategy for...
the medical examiner's office, carrying the body bag holding her husband, dropped it down a flight of stairs, crashing into a decorative end table. I will never forget the sound of her voice when she looked at me and said,
Video examples
Roxane Gay: Confessions...
We can spend our box office dollars elsewhere when movies don't treat women as anything more than decorative objects. We can stop supporting professional sports where the athletes treat their partners like punching bags.
Video examples
The complex geometry of...
to produce works that are intricate, decorative and pleasing to the eye. And these craftsmen prove just how much is possible with some artistic intuition, creativity, dedication and a great compass and ruler.
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Amanda Harlech
English Writer
People think of me as a stereotype: muse, privileged, decorative. Classically, the muses were the inspiration. They'd come and go - they wouldn't actually make things, get their hands dirty. I don't think I'm a muse, although I think I can help pull a trigger. I really like getting my hands dirty.
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Jil Sander
German Designer
Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.
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Sriram Raghavan
Indian Director
I do not think that when I write a female character, I intend to reflect my thoughts on gender equality, but I always make sure that my female character is not decorative, they are human, they are good, bad, complex and close to reality.
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Alissa Quart
American Writer
Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois or tiringly avant-garde.
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Hubert de Givenchy
French Designer
I had the fortune to evolve at a time when fashion was very important, and women dressed themselves very well. A woman who dressed very well also had a husband who would have beautiful collections of art and decorative objects.
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Josef Albers
German Artist
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.
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Gertrude Jekyll
British Celebrity
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.
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Oscar Wilde
Irish Poet
I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
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Sussanne Khan
There was a time, about six or seven years ago, when everything was extremely bling and decorative. I was not at peace with that kind of world.
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Ken Follett
Welsh Author
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
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Amanda Harlech
English Writer
People think of me as a stereotype: muse, privileged, decorative. Classically, the muses were the inspiration. They'd come and go - they wouldn't actually make things, get their hands dirty. I don't think I'm a muse, although I think I can help pull a trigger. I really like getting my hands dirty.
Quote examples
Jil Sander
German Designer
Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.
Quote examples
Sriram Raghavan
Indian Director
I do not think that when I write a female character, I intend to reflect my thoughts on gender equality, but I always make sure that my female character is not decorative, they are human, they are good, bad, complex and close to reality.
Quote examples
Alissa Quart
American Writer
Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois or tiringly avant-garde.
Quote examples
Hubert de Givenchy
French Designer
I had the fortune to evolve at a time when fashion was very important, and women dressed themselves very well. A woman who dressed very well also had a husband who would have beautiful collections of art and decorative objects.
Quote examples
Josef Albers
German Artist
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.
Quote examples
Gertrude Jekyll
British Celebrity
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.
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Oscar Wilde
Irish Poet
I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
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Sussanne Khan
There was a time, about six or seven years ago, when everything was extremely bling and decorative. I was not at peace with that kind of world.
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Ken Follett
Welsh Author
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
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