Climbing two stories high, they punctuate the walls on both sides, and let in splashes of color that seem to dye the white walls around them.

FORBES: The Power of Light in La Sagrada Familia

Ms. Van de Velde helped handle much of the furniture and finishes, choosing to go all white with splashes of color, such as a circular purple chair, a purple-and-gray rug with a tiled pattern and hot pink-and-royal blue wallpaper.

WSJ: Building Outside the Box

His new spot is a sea of white walls and columns punctuated by splashes of color: a sage gown with beads and feathers from his 2013 resort collection and a chaise longue he found on the street and re-covered in lapis-print fabric of his own design.

CNN: Mohapatra's moment

In the first section, history paintings documenting the familiar events of 18th-century Venice, such as masked carnival-goers at the Ridotto, the state-run gambling house, are executed in precise detail, according to the canons of the neoclassical current of the day, with none of the fanciful splashes of color in the artist's later work.

WSJ: Appreciating Francesco Guardi's Changing Genres/ A Guardi Retropsective at Museo Correr in Venice