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  • But this 12,000 square foot home in the heart of a Bel-Air gated community puts an organic twist on the architectural theme with roughly-hewn blocks of wood for stairs, a textured white wall in the pattern of a wave, reclaimed tree trunks for dinner tables and bathroom counters, and a brick facade.

    Billy Rose Design/Assembledge+ 2010 Modern In Bel-Air Gated Community Huffington Post 2010

  • But this 12,000 square foot home in the heart of a Bel-Air gated community puts an organic twist on the architectural theme with roughly-hewn blocks of wood for stairs, a textured white wall in the pattern of a wave, reclaimed tree trunks for dinner tables and bathroom counters, and a brick facade.

    Billy Rose Design/Assembledge+ 2010 Modern In Bel-Air Gated Community The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • But this 12,000 square foot home in the heart of a Bel-Air gated community puts an organic twist on the architectural theme with roughly-hewn blocks of wood for stairs, a textured white wall in the pattern of a wave, reclaimed tree trunks for dinner tables and bathroom counters, and a brick facade.

    Billy Rose Design/Assembledge+ 2010 Modern In Bel-Air Gated Community Huffington Post 2010

  • Leaning against the damp roughly-hewn brick wall she paused to watch the mouth of the alley.

    Three Corpse Brunch: Part One 2010

  • Among the best of recent shaky-cam implementations (take that, Greengrass), Bigelow's roughly-hewn approach emphasizes the rush of battle and complicates typically easy psycho-sexual metaphors (Jarhead) into something far more existentially confrontational.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • Among the best of recent shaky-cam implementations (take that, Greengrass), Bigelow's roughly-hewn approach emphasizes the rush of battle and complicates typically easy psycho-sexual metaphors (Jarhead) into something far more existentially confrontational.

    150: Up in the Air, The Hurt Locker 2009

  • If you loved Froot Loops as a kid, but felt that the loops were a little too large and roughly-hewn, Ghostbusters was the perfect alternative.

    The best geeky cereals of the 1980s 2009

  • Iron Man is fine entertainment indeed, an almost perfectly structured machine only sporadically and minimally undone by adherence to dramatic form Stark's relationship with Gwyneth Paltrow's assistant Miss Potts, though bubbling with romance, is a weak link, which it executes with precise - if a bit roughly-hewn - skill.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • It's certainly a roughly-hewn area (the 3 valleys, not my house) and has traditionally appealed to the roughly-hewn, adventure traveler more than the upscale I-need-a/c type.

    Guelaguetza Cancelled 2006

  • Iron Man is fine entertainment indeed, an almost perfectly structured machine only sporadically and minimally undone by adherence to dramatic form Stark's relationship with Gwyneth Paltrow's assistant Miss Potts, though bubbling with romance, is a weak link, which it executes with precise - if a bit roughly-hewn - skill.

    Iron Man (2008): B 2008

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