Mr. Valdiserri welcomed the men into his office where the Hershberger Award was hanging in a frame on the wall, and the men gleefully snapped pictures.

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Yet most of the photos taken with these phones will be grainy and of low resolution fine for capturing the essence of a moment to send to friends and family, but not good enough to frame for the wall.

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Across the room, a flat steel frame leans against the wall, a pair of handles welded to one end.

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"We should entrust the broken bottle and its contents to the new owners, but I would frame it and put it on the wall, " he said.

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Actually, first she swung into the room like a broken gate, holding the door frame with one hand and slamming the other one flat against the wall.

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On a cliff-top site with a massive curved glass wall and built with slate floors, white walls and views which beautifully frame the surf, the fishermen's cottages and a distant lighthouse the gallery is a powerful work of art in its own right.

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At one point Degas was said to have ripped a patron's Degas painting off the wall and attempted to repossess it when he found that the man had changed the Degas frame.

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When play restarted, the writing seemed to be on the wall for Pettman when he missed a fairly simple long red but he recovered to take the frame.

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The company calls the stand a "timeless gallery" frame, and indeed the set would fit right in with some of the more conceptual pieces at the MoMA. Still, that easel-like design could be a bit limiting for some living rooms, so you can remove the S9 and wall-mount it -- though the 2.2 channel audio is built into that frame.

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