carpeting

The fulcrum of a cultural transition from vibrancy to stagnation was the 1970s, an era remembered now, if at all, for leisure suits, burnt-orange shag carpeting and muttonchop sideburns.

The myriad small towns are brief interludes amid the dairy and poultry farms and lush carpeting of vegetables, fruit and nut trees that stretch to the hazy-brown horizon.

Although the carpets in the real Sistine Chapel are beige, Davies installed brilliant red carpeting to make the room “more flamboyant and colorful.”

Less than five millimeters in size, the thread-like fibers come from synthetic clothing materials like fleece, cosmetics, packaging materials and carpeting.

Soon, mounds of unsightly sargassum – carried by currents from the Sargasso Sea and linked to climate change – were carpeting the region’s prized coastlines, repelling holidaymakers with the pungent stench emitted as it rots.