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  • The Rubinsesque figure within a painting seems perfectly fitted to the generous seat of a Stickly-era fruitwood chair standing by.

    The Barnes Foundation « DESIGNPHILADELPHIA 2008

  • Tobin looked around his thirty-by-thirty-foot living room; at the two Stickly couches and arm chairs with the deep-brown suede cushions; the blue, red, and gold Persian area rug; the ceiling-to-floor bookcases; the framed original art on the walls, a prized Pollock, signed Warhol, some excellent reproductions of Matisse, Pissaro, Monet, Manet, and a few lesser-known modern artists from the galleries on Fifty-seventh Street and Soho.

    Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

  • Tobin looked around his thirty-by-thirty-foot living room; at the two Stickly couches and arm chairs with the deep-brown suede cushions; the blue, red, and gold Persian area rug; the ceiling-to-floor bookcases; the framed original art on the walls, a prized Pollock, signed Warhol, some excellent reproductions of Matisse, Pissaro, Monet, Manet, and a few lesser-known modern artists from the galleries on Fifty-seventh Street and Soho.

    Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

  • Tobin looked around his thirty-by-thirty-foot living room; at the two Stickly couches and arm chairs with the deep-brown suede cushions; the blue, red, and gold Persian area rug; the ceiling-to-floor bookcases; the framed original art on the walls, a prized Pollock, signed Warhol, some excellent reproductions of Matisse, Pissaro, Monet, Manet, and a few lesser-known modern artists from the galleries on Fifty-seventh Street and Soho.

    Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

  • Tobin looked around his thirty-by-thirty-foot living room; at the two Stickly couches and arm chairs with the deep-brown suede cushions; the blue, red, and gold Persian area rug; the ceiling-to-floor bookcases; the framed original art on the walls, a prized Pollock, signed Warhol, some excellent reproductions of Matisse, Pissaro, Monet, Manet, and a few lesser-known modern artists from the galleries on Fifty-seventh Street and Soho.

    Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

  • 'Don't you remember what your mother told you?' said Stickly-Prickly, --

    Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • 'That's unkind of you,' said Stickly-Prickly, 'seeing that this time yesterday you tried to scoop me out of my shell with your paw.'

    Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • 'That was the very thing I was thinking just now,' said Stickly-Prickly.

    Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • 'I shan't tell you,' said Stickly-Prickly, 'but you can scoop me out of my shell if you like.'

    Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Stickly-Prickly and Slow-Solid anything except Armadillo.

    Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

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