mantel
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He has added gold trim to the crown molding, smothered the walls with gold-framed artworks and gold-painted embellishments, placed inch-thick gold coasters on the desk, and lined up gold urns on the mantel.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
It’s for the mantel, for our boys,’” Song revealed.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 2, 2026
“What is it with rich people and mallards?” he asks, noting several on a mantel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
Phil to take the mantel of the storied New York Philharmonic, his Mahler is neither overly exuberant nor constrained by grief and Berliner decorum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2025
The following morning, Calder and Petra sat down on a bench in the Gracie Hall lobby They were facing a stone fireplace that had a bust of Francis Parker on the mantel.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
The company’s clocks could once be found on Navy battleships during World War II, and adorned mantels, walls and desks at the White House for presidents ranging from Dwight Eisenhower to Joe Biden.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2025
In his travels, Tocqueville saw pieces of the famous Plymouth Rock all over: used as doorstops, as paperweights, set in the centers of mantels like the mandibles of sainted martyrs.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2024
The most captivating ways to usher in the season’s beauty has been through the design of our mantels.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
Grieu likes to add pedestals of various heights, or even a stack of books, to “create decorative moments and give interest to clusters of intermixed objects” on bookshelves, coffee tables, mantels and more.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2022
More than the hand-painted blue tiles in the kitchen or the mantels laden with potted tulips, this workshop was a testimony to Hoede’s wealth.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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