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  • I raised a pen full of pheasants a few years ago, both for the sake of my own enjoyment and to field train my bird dog. it was completely encased in chicken-wire fencing, and anchored to the ground with those steel fenceposts.

    On Oregon Ranchers and Wolves 2009

  • Then she saw the Maya Lin-like chicken-wire sculpture and began to get the joke.

    In Las Vegas, Art Imitates Art Alexandra Berzon 2011

  • It's small and tidy, with a stone hearth and a cupboard whose chicken-wire door reveals sparkling stemware on the shelves.

    Tom Sietsema on Bluegrass Tavern: New Baltimore eatery celebrates 'bites' 2011

  • Kazunori Hataguchi Rossana Orlandi Since transforming an abandoned Milan factory into her eponymous Spazio Rossana Orlandi showroom and gallery rossanaorlandi.com in 2002, Ms. Orlandi has become a tastemaker and a champion of contemporary design, selling everything from no-nonsense aluminum cupboards to whimsical chicken-wire giraffe sculptures.

    Rossana Orlandi, La Donna di Mobili 2011

  • I raised a pen full of pheasants a few years ago, both for the sake of my own enjoyment and to field train my bird dog. it was completely encased in chicken-wire fencing, and anchored to the ground with those steel fenceposts.

    On Oregon Ranchers and Wolves 2009

  • I have one for a pet; actually, I pull him out of his natural habitat and stick him in a chicken-wire cage.

    Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010

  • The only chickens left are the nine layers, so I reorient the chicken-wire line to run east-west across the garden.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • The only chickens left are the nine layers, so I reorient the chicken-wire line to run east-west across the garden.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • The only chickens left are the nine layers, so I reorient the chicken-wire line to run east-west across the garden.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • The only chickens left are the nine layers, so I reorient the chicken-wire line to run east-west across the garden.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

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