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Other traditional Acapulco wares are coconut shell carvings, usually monkey’s heads, as well as decorative seashell ornaments, and regional candies made of coconut and tamarind.
As it is, the book is greatly bulked up: its wide hanging indentions, large type, ragged-right setting, open spaces make for an attractive package; the illustrations are pretty and, in some cases (various sails), useful, but many of them are gratuitous and purely decorative ( helm, scrimshaw , five pages of different rigs).
The salads were especially deplorable; for they tended to be complicated and decorative, and might even conceal bits of marshmallow in their dreadful depth ...
The Museum of Decorative Arts (Musée des arts décoratifs) is housed in the 20th-century Château Dufresne (corner of Sherbrooke and Boulevard Pie-IX at 2200 rue Crescent).
Besides the works of the 14th-century masters Duccio, Pietro, and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, as well as Simone Martini, see Siena’s 16th-century Mannerists, painting at a time when the Renaissance teetered on the brink of effete decadence: Beccafumi’s dreamy Birth of Mary and a highly decorative Christ at the Column by Sodoma.