What interested me is that it is working-class and some middle-class housing, ... Typically one finds ornate homes of the wealthy as landmarks.
Quotes about ornate (12 Quotes)
People are entangled in the enjoyment of fine clothes, but gold and silver are only dust. They acquire beautiful horses and elephants, and ornate carriages of many kinds. They think of nothing else, and they forget all their relatives. They ignore their Creator without the Name, they are impure.
A lot of designs are grounded in history even though they tend to be clean and not overly ornate. The sculptural form is often historic. If you come to our exhibit, a lot of things will look familiar.
Some are more ornate, decorative, with engravings or tri-colored gold, just a little bit of color.
But who is this, what thing of sea or land, Female of sex it seems, That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger.
My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
A paisley's character can change with color. It can be loud or quiet, serene or adventurous, ornate but not fussy.
Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.
I wanted to celebrate the movies and to include great movie houses and screens. So Roy went back to the classic ornate movie houses for his inspiration, which, I think, is superbly reflected in the final design.
It's something that has always been there, within me. My great-grandfather used to decorate his letters home from the First World War with ornate drawings, so maybe I inherited something from him. I stayed on at school and got art A-Level. It was just something I enjoyed doing, though it wasn't high on my list of potential careers. I was sports-orientated and I saw myself possibly being a PE teacher.
Clearly, these are not the grandiose architectural wonders one would liken to European cathedrals or ornate movie palaces. But they are in many ways just as reflective of our region's unique and diverse architectural history.