How To Use Banquette In A Sentence
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Lounge on inviting velvet banquettes, leather easy chairs or oversized ottomans and sip their divine cocktails.
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There's no patina, faux or otherwise, just creamy walls texturized with bits of straw, gray backlit banquettes, bare wood tables more Ikea than antique.
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Instead of the sleek, design-conscious interior you expected for so renowned an avant-garde restaurant, you are led to a red velvet, cushioned banquette and a table covered in thick white linens.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
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I made it across the room, but as I was edging towards the end of the banquette the hunk caught sight of me.
KICK BACK
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Inside it is a confection of dark polished wood, shining brass and comfortable banquettes.
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The compartment immediately beneath the banquette, which is the front compartment of the body of the coach, is called the _coupé_.
Rollo in Switzerland
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‘I like this place already,’ said one grizzled old TriBeCa resident as he settled into the restaurant's long faux-leather banquette.
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Rows of high backed leatherette banquettes filled with happy shoppers smoking tabs and drinking frothy milky coffee.
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Approximately four feet down, halfway to the floor, the wall widened abruptly into a bench called a "banquette" by the archaeologists.
A Rock in the Baltic
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Mary's Fish Camp is poky in the way the Pearl is, with plain navy-and-gray walls, plywood banquettes, and a curved eating bar covered in tin.
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Mr. Smith said interviews will also happen in the area, which features banquettes in bronze, aqua, celadon, pecan and sandalwood hues; paintings by Thomas Hart Benton and Rockwell Kent; Mr. Smith's own art books; energy-efficient TVs; bottles of water; a hibiscus bamboo floor lamp; a sound-absorbing cork floor; battery-operated votives no lit candles allowed! and, just to make even Nicole Kidman feel at home, a calming bowl of lemons.
Oscar Greenroom: Aqua, Pecan, Lemons
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Plank roads at intervals are pushed far into the swamp, but the banquettes [sidewalks] cease and wooden gunwales and planks take their place.
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Honor and I fall back into the pillows of our banquette.
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The L-shaped dining room possesses a modern-man aesthetic too, what with its spaciousness, absence of tchotchkes, copper-sponged walls, pillow-lined banquettes and unclothed brown tables.
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_banquette_ on a fine summer's day is one of the most enjoyable places in life; it is cheap, and certainly not too rapid (five or six miles an hour being the average); and we can sit almost as comfortably in a corner of the banquette as in an easy-chair.
Normandy Picturesque
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And almost on the other side of the curve of the banquette was a woman, who wasn’t terribly attractive.
The New Yorker Stories
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Tall doors open out onto the sidewalk, and diners sit in curvy plastic Knoll chairs or on banquettes upholstered with the same stretchy, Prada-red mesh you find in upmarket running shoes.
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I settled into one of the leather banquettes for a leisurely tea service, including scones and a slice of custard pie served by white-jacketed waiters.
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But to the colonies these changes were not carried, and such changes as occurred in the French and English of America were, for the most part, separate and distinct (as exampled by such Creole words as "banquette" for "sidewalk," in place of the
American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
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The banquette is a seat on the top of the coach, and though it is covered above, it is open in front, and so it affords an excellent view.
Rollo on the Rhine
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There's white leather everywhere: the chairs, the banquettes, and - in a very questionable move - even the tables.
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I really, really loved the food at a local curry restaurant with headache-inducing red banquettes and zebra-striped decor.
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In the restaurant, the wood furniture is starkly black, the walls are a cool celadon green, and the towering banquettes on one side of the room appear to have been molded from some dark, plasticized material by Prada.
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Then he reached the banquette, and without a pause, scooped up the parcel in his right hand and raced on.
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Instead Currid's has attractively upholstered banquette seating and padded stools.
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It is, when all is said and done, on the gallery that this city lives most of its life -- on the gallery even more than on the evening-thronged banquette, which is the sidewalk of the North, or the boulevards, or even the fragrant parks, where life flows in a fair, placid stream.
Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas
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Of course, cushy red velvet window-seat banquettes and embroidered footstools don't come cheap.
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Completing the triad is the intimate Transit Lounge (141 Tai An Road; 86-21-6283-3051), a favorite among Japanese men who come for the swanky red banquettes, loungey vibe and mojitos.
Sunday Reading
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You might have to lengthen the sofa legs a bit to make it more like a banquette.
In the Mood for Kitchens With Character
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You pass through plush red velvet drapes into a lavish room of gorgeous banquettes, bookcases and bare concrete walls.
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In one fluid, unstudied gesture she scrabbled about on the banquette for her discarded clothing.
DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
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The stylish interior has the feel of a private club: a warm, orange-lit interior with a crackling fireplace, comfy armchairs and banquettes perfect for sipping brandies on and smoking cigars.
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Long tables rimmed by ottomans and banquettes invite big groups to celebrate over family-style feasts.
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Small recessed ceiling fixtures provide additional illumination around the dining room, along with valance lighting over the wall banquettes.
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This opens up onto an incense-scented lounge, where beautiful babes and boys recline on rich leather banquettes.
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Lounge on inviting velvet banquettes, leather easy chairs or oversized ottomans and sip their divine cocktails.
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Offering wonderful views of Sydney Harbour, the restaurant is a swish mix of chocolate-coloured banquettes, bar canapes, perfect service and contemporary Australian cuisine.
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There are catwalk skyways, a mezzanine bar, and lots of roomy, Steven Seagal-era power banquettes made of shiny black vinyl.
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By day, Prato acts as a café with the requisite papers and mags laid out on the back of a high, leather banquette.
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Graham sat down on the nearest banquette, a puzzled look on his face.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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Larry puzzled over the situation: Should the banquette be held for the diva, or bequeathed to the refreshingly unassuming — and relievedly present — young actress?
Ye Waverly Blog: Stood Up: Vanity Fair
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My eyes darted from the custom-built white vinyl banquette to the ‘solid gold’ piano.
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Bouncing Bounce Deuce and creating a sparse, white brick walled space outfitted with park bench-style booths, large U-shaped leather banquettes, and Calder-esque hanging fixtures, Van's specializing in Northern Euro beers, infused akvavit, and Genever-aided cocktails like the lemon/bitters/roobis-infused vermouth B Side Sling.
Thrillist: Vandaag: Northern European Eats
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Take one of the large banquettes along the walls and eye up the girls on the dance floor, or gaze from the balcony on boys below doing their breaks.
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Our table was backed up to an L-shaped banquette, with two straight chairs nearer the fire.
SUMMER OF SECRETS
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But there is something easeful and secure about this uncluttered room with its warm umber banquettes.
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Radiant Ashley Olsen lounged calmly on a couch, Foxy Brown spilled out of her bandeau top, SNL's Kenan Thompson took up a banquette, and Naomi Campbell drifted across the dance floor.
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Consider incorporating a storage facility within your kitchen seating - banquettes, for example, can lift up to reveal a cavernous space underneath; hinge small sections for ease of access.
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Completing the triad is the intimate Transit Lounge (141 Tai An Road; 86-21-6283-3051), a favorite among Japanese men who come for the swanky red banquettes, loungey vibe and mojitos.
Sunday Reading
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Among the inexplicable fashions and inspired dancing, I stood alone next to a banquette, and in a quiet, shocking moment realized the fogged-up atrium was filled with people I loved.
Welcome to My World
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She sat on the banquette with her feet up, notebook in her lap, and waited.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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These include a beautiful main bar lounge, an exclusive VIP area and another room with banquettes and booths that are perfect for sitting at with your bottle service and schmoozing your date or chatting with your mates.
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They range from the kitschy "La Maison Voyageurs," with a stuffed Bengali tiger, mock-tortoise sofa and giant live palm in the living room to the high-ceiled zen-white Maison Blanche, filled with only white furniture a Barcelona banquette by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a marble table by Florence Knoll and Plexiglas chairs by Philippe Starck.
Coasting High in Provence
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Arizona flagstone, laid with finger-tight mortarless joints, provides a base for the patio, which includes a built-in banquette and a continuously running water feature.
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Of course, cushy red velvet window-seat banquettes and embroidered footstools don't come cheap.
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You can go for American diner-style booths, built-in benches, banquettes or stools.
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From the red velvet drapes and smooth polished wood floors to the gorgeous blue banquettes and art-covered walls, we think you're rather going to like Baykus.
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A stone "kerb," or banquette, ran around one portion of the wall.
The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
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Just last Monday Oprah cohosted the Met Gala, and (fueled by tequila) danced on a banquette at the afterparty, along with Usher and Diddy.
Oprah Sings & Dances With Usher & Will.i.am (VIDEO)
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It's the sort of city where a burglar, a banker, a taxi-driver, an academician, a modiste, and a pushcart vendor might all fetch up together in a corner banquette at the end of the night.
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The dining room, which I am already sizing up beadily, has green upholstered banquettes and a patterned carpet.
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Having designed many elements in the hotel, from the bedside lamps to the banquette sofas, he has now set his sights on a much bigger challenge.
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A New Orleans-esque red glow suffused the place and a long banquette lined the back wall.
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Guests, high-rollers and girls with millionaire uncles take seats on the wall banquettes and gaze up at the striking Maxfield Parrish mural of Old King Cole that looms over the scene.
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She pointed us to a banquette and Jimmy gave me the outward facing table.
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In the restaurant, the wood furniture is starkly black, the walls are a cool celadon green, and the towering banquettes on one side of the room appear to have been molded from some dark, plasticized material by Prada.
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With a 'bonjour' and a nod he heads for a banquette.
Times, Sunday Times
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The purple suedette banquettes are very tight.
Times, Sunday Times
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The warm and stylish interior includes bar stools, bistro style tables and maroon leather banquettes to sit at.
