Word: tiling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fortresses" of marble, mirrors and glass. Master-bedroom suites get special attention because working couples spend much of their leisure time in them. There has been a resurgence of "libraries" (home offices to the unredecorated) for dual- income families to stash books, papers, computers and answering machines. Baked ceramic tile is in vogue for every surface from countertops to foyer floors, and the mixing of bleached and raw-wood textures is common. Formica furniture, in startling shapes and bold solids, is a yuppie favorite. As for colors, earth tones -- drab tans, harvest golds and avocados -- are now out of favor...
...removed from the people at the bottom of the Depression that there was no thought of ever being directly touched by the presidency. But the world moved. The dawn patrol went off to real war. Postwar prosperity banished the hollyhocks and the clapboard house in favor of a red tile farm-implement garage, which succumbed to modern recession, only to be replaced by a Sears catalog store, which gave way to even harder times...
...most beautiful settings in the world. It was this natural beauty that led Governor Simon van der Stel to set up a holiday camp there in 1679. The university started in 1866 as the Stellenbosch Gymnasium, or high school. Today its low-slung buildings, white with red tile roofs, are thickly shaded by ancient oaks and framed by cerise bougainvillea. Even the trees are considered national monuments. When one of the giant oaks along Dorp Street dies, tree surgeons quickly operate and fill it with cement to keep it standing. The whole town testifies to a deep concern with preserving...
Inside the museum, pale maple floors, terra-cotta tile and fiber matting create a neutral background for the displays. What saves it from being merely one more ocean of architectural white space is a soaring four-story atrium- lobby, dominated by a magnificent oval staircase that leads to the exhibit levels. "What we wanted," says Smith, "was a simple environment that would be a good backdrop for our exhibits...
...floor carpeted in bilious green, under a ceiling of dingy acoustical tile, a few score of Grossinger veterans and journalists gathered to witness the destruction of an old building and an invocation of Jennie's sacred memory. "I think she'd be delighted today," said William Meyer, the confident, youthful president of Servico. He went on to describe the changes planned for the next year: the gourmet dining room, the spa, the whirlpool, the thermal wrap, the two-bedroom condos that would go for $125,000 each, the 8,000-sq.-ft. "action lounge" targeted to young people...