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overscale

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o·ver·scale  (vr-skl) or o·ver·scaled (-skld)
adj.
Being of a size or scope that is greater than usual; unusually large or extensive: overscale furniture; an overscaled jacket.


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Illumined by enormous windows brightly decked in a green-and-white overscale check, the salmon-hued library/ sunroom to the left is a private spot for serious reading.
The enigmatic, overscale aspect of his sculptures both commands attention from afar, holding the huge space visually, and intimates something between cinematic set and scene of the crime; the works weigh in like so many words and phrases from an ongoing story, transforming the institution's dramatic but insistently neutral spaces into a kind of memory palace.
A large, overscale pendant light with a classical pattern completes, yet gives the lobby a contrasting style.
 
 
 
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