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When they got the Kips Bay bedroom, they commissioned my metallic "boiserie" for two whole walls, plus a radiator cover. From Wordnik.com. [Interior Design Industry News] Reference
The downstairs was all carved panelled walls, paint-ed boiserie, ornate marble mantels upon which rested eighteenth-century French bronzes, ormolu-mounted Chi-nese porcelain, among other priceless knick-knacks. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ninja]
Princess Gloria, her mother, Beatrix, Countess von Schönburg-Glauchau, and I ate dinner in the new stainless-steel kitchen — not the big family dining room with assorted Wittelsbachs and Fürstenbergs staring down from the boiserie. From Wordnik.com. [The Conversion of Gloria TNT] Reference
The arcades allow you to partake in the same activities as visitors on the Grand Tour did centuries ago — like them, you are meant to admire the chandeliers and the boiserie, stop for a snack, and even, despite these perilous economic times, maybe purchase a little something. From Wordnik.com. [Paris Under Glass] Reference
The table beneath it was arranged like an altar, and the Ikon was let in to the carved boiserie of the wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Price of Things] Reference
Ladurée macaroons - that is, with antique, off-green, gilt-highlighted boiserie and off-white walls for hanging paintings. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Hubert de Givenchy praised the four-year restoration of the store, from digging out a Roman well and skulls in the cellars to re-gilding the upstairs boiserie. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
The door was opened at once, and she was taken through the quaint square hall into the master's own sitting-room, a richly sombre place of oak boiserie and old crimson silk. From Wordnik.com. [The Price of Things] Reference
XV-style chairs, bouillette lamps, boiserie panels, Sultanabad carpets, velvet-and-damask-covered love seats, a mahogany octagonal table for the octagonal dining room, the pair of silver gilt candelabras on the white marble mantel above one of the seven fireplaces. From Wordnik.com. [All Stories | The New York Observer] Reference
But certain rooms with the heavy gilded and pastel boiserie just don't seem to translate well to photography. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
"Be it a porcelain cup, or a boiserie - paneled room, or be the minimalism of going to Crate & Barrel and getting lime-green dishes for your summer-porch terrace for lemonade!. From Wordnik.com. [Chilly Liaisons Abounding At Met For The Big Ball] Reference
Seymour Hicks, Checkers, meniscus, googly or bosie, boiserie. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
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