Word: woodenness
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...sheet of black and white print fabric from the Finnish design company Marimekko hangs on one wall, stretched across a handmade frame. Vases from BoConcept adorn the black shelves mounted against the wall, while a black papasan sits across from them. A pair of glazed wooden tables—the tops are cross-sections of some large tree—rests on a black carpet, exuding sculptural finesse. The orange linoleum flooring is invisible under a sheet of white vinyl. Lights installed on the ceiling shine through white fabric, casting a muted glow throughout the room...
...Harvard’s standard issue bookshelf, desk, and bed frame are nowhere to be found. Instead, the heavy wooden desk has been replaced with a slim, steely silver work table. The standard bed frame has been put into storage. Batt has constructed a replacement frame that sits low to the ground...
Stepping across the threshold of the Leverett room belonging to Baruch Shemtov ’09 is a different experience entirely. The soft brown leather chair, wooden screens, and warm lighting give the room, in Shemtov’s words, a feeling of “exotic...
...while panels of patterned fabric replace the standard-issue drab Harvard shades. Two large photographic prints are mounted in silvery frames on the wall. An white orchid plant, stems blooming, rests by the window. A Louis Vuitton suitcase has been transformed into a coffee table. A pair of wooden screens rest against the wall. Shemtov added these screens to mask “prison-like” feel of Leverett’s singles...
...Robin Cormack, one of the exhibition's curators, sees the wooden sculpture as crucial to understanding the Byzantines' obsession with ceremony and mystery, which he believes were efforts to offset a low-rumbling sense of insecurity. Byzantine figures and icons seem crudely rendered to us now because the artists carefully chose to make them generic and timeless. "If you give a figure a [personalized] resemblance," Cormack explains, "it becomes ephemeral, like its model...