#pediment

The rich lacquer red of the staircase hall acts as a beautiful foil both to the eighteenth-century plasterwork and to the selection of family portraits ranged in the hall itself, up the stairs and between half columns on the landing. Sometimes used for buffet meals, shooting lunches and children's parties, the hall also houses a much-used pianola beneath the stairs.

Marcia Pitt and Her Brother George Pitt, Later Second Baron Rivers, Riding in the Park at Stratfield Saye House, Hampshire

Artist: Thomas Gooch (English, 1750–1802)

Date: 1782

Medium: Oil on canvas

From Robert Lee Brewer at Poetic Asides:

Take the phrase "Group (blank)," 

replace the blank with a new word or phrase, 

make the new phrase the title of your poem,

 and then, write. 

Possible titles include: 

"Group Think," "Group Project,"

"Groupies for Yacht Rock Cover Bands," 

and/or "Grouped Together Against Our Will."

From the Earth Covering Sherwin-Williams: Pediment

From the Word Strumpet herself, Charlotte Rains Dixon: How can you be sure?

Remember: 

These prompts are springboards to creativity. 

Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.

Loulé has a handful of beautiful buildings, but this one has to be one of my favourites - thanks, largely, to its beautiful tiles pediment. The rest of the building is absolutely normal, but this Art Nouveau pediment is quite something.