Word: bric-a-brac
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...they shall at any time change the general disposition or arrangement of any articles which shall have been placed in the Museum . . . then I give the said land, Museum, pictures, statuary, works of art and bric-a-brac, furniture, books and papers, and the said shares and the staid trust fund, to the President and Follows of Harvard College...
...think so. It seems to me that we are all sitting around reading our books, having our orgasms, taking our drugs, and praying our prayers for that reason only. To go up. To rise above these wretched buildings, institutions and all around bric-a-brac. Call it freedom, call it transcendence, call it mind-blowing, call it rebirth, call it death-it couldn't happen too soon...
...resources to blend Romanesque, Oriental, Moorish and rococo influences into what later became known as the Jugendstil-the German equivalent of art nouveau. Petzet's point is spectacularly documented in a dramatic display of 907 paintings, drawings, costumes, stage models, furniture and other rarely seen bric-a-brac commissioned and closely supervised in their execution by Ludwig for his many projects. The lot is installed for the summer in a wing of the Wittelsbach family palace, formally known as the Munich Residence. Selected from Ludwig's three castles, from vaults and state theatrical museums, and sumptuously installed...
...Victorian parlor was complete without its whatnot crammed with porcelain curios and bric-a-brac. Potters of that day found an endless market for glossy, sentimental figures of puppies, kittens, grazing sheep and cows (sometimes used as milk pitchers). Today the ceramic gimcrack is coming back, this time destined as much for museums as for the coffee table, and in a radically different form. The current crop of gewgaws is more likely to be an eight-foot alligator, a toothbrush, or a bathroom scale with a few human toes still left in place...
...Fogg has several pieces I would like to see placed outside," Berg said yesterday, "but I realize that the Yard is fairly sacrosanct, and we must be careful we don't fill it up with bric-a-brac. I don't want to encourage controversy...