The other introduces floral wallpaper, a knickknack shelf of carousels and rocking horses, drop-crystal wall sconces, a formal window treatment and silk flowers everywhere - a swag of wisteria here and masses of mauve tulips there.

Flagg reached a knickknack shelf populated with a milky-green menagerie of jade animals.

Observe the plastic covers on the cushions, the long-forgotten objects on the knickknack shelf and what appears to be flocked wallpaper that has faded to a wan pinkish-green.

To his right, on a dusty knickknack shelf, stood the "World's Best Mom" figure he'd bought and then hand-painted for one of her birthdays.

And Ramses, he was staring at the wallpaper, at the framed portraits, at the knickknack shelf nestled in the corner at the top of the stairs.

In a 1991 picture by Herb Ritts in this show, Madonna is disguised as an 18th-century extravaganza, her skirt extended from the hips like a knickknack shelf, her wig like a wave from "The Perfect Storm."

The entrance room, apart from the sign, had a knickknack shelf of Japanese carved ivory and an old-fashioned umbrella rack, but that added nothing to his knowledge.

Mom bought a little knickknack shelf from Yugoslavia ' and that Mrs Petrie bought a lovely little drop-leaf table, but that was all I saw.

Now that same plasticity is coming to microcontrollers, the computer chips that act as brains for the chirping, dancing, listening and seeing devices that line our knickknack shelves and dashboards and fill our pockets.