Another door downstairs to the left of the foyer opens into a more casual living room for Mr. Gouw and his family, with a grand piano, a large-screen television, a sofa and coffee table.
He had collapsed between wicker sofa and African coffee table, his legs hairless and white as wax, his stomach a great pale mound, and his face as pinched and pink as crab shell.
But there is so much more, all beautifully wrapped up in a well-illustrated and handsome coffee table volume.
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Nail art is the cosmetic commodity that glitzy celebrities like Lady Gaga Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj lend their names to, the theme of gallery exhibits and glossy coffee table books.
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Now in their third year, with 150, 000 unique visitors per month and a coffee-table book to their credit, the pair make money through producing advertorials, campaigns, sponsorships and casts from their band of 5, 000 tastemakers.
Rows of eyeglasses and sunglasses blanket the coffee table, piles of suspenders and ties fill chairs, a shoe store's worth of wingtips and loafers and boots line the wall.
My brother and I dropped the stack of Betamax tapes on the coffee table and got to work, two or three movies on Friday night, the rest on Saturday.
You can even seat visitors on a low sofa across the room and place a coffee table in front of them.
Achor Achor and I built a facsimile of our Group Twelve home on our coffee table and then we laughed some more.
The room doesn't have much more than a U-shaped modular couch accented with a handful of colorful pillows and a glass coffee table.
Curtains can be opened and shut by pushing a button, and a long coffee table can be raised until it becomes the dining room table.
In the library, where weekly workshops, book clubs and talks are held, is a selection of beautiful Taschen coffee table books and must-reads including Vogue creative director Grace Coddington's autobiography.
Aside from raising your bed, you can also hang a skirt around your coffee table and store items underneath.
One day in his office, Udall picked up some tabloids from his coffee table and waved them at me.
You can dance or sway in the aisles, Luhrmann says, or have doughnuts and coffee from the snack table.
Small replicas of sculptures sit on her polished coffee table and each cushion on her couch is arranged just so.
Just remember the rules: keep your shoes off the coffee table and keep your grubby little hands off my remote.
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But, while stylish, a zebra-print rug seems too impersonal, and a limited edition coffee table book might not suit his taste.
But its function is two-fold: planning tool and beautifully photographed coffee-table book.
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Let the sports fans get to their couches, Coca-Cola in hand and Cheetos on the coffee table so that the games can begin.
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Mr. Bradbury adapted his stories for TV, co-wrote the script for the 1956 film "Moby Dick" and produced children's books, poetry and text for coffee-table books.
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Surface--a highly responsive touch-screen computer the size and shape of a coffee table--is the latest attempt in the wireless industry to transform the way consumers shop for mobile devices.
Nintendo TVii intends to streamline the experience further, casting aside your cable box remote for built-in channel guides and DVR programming (coffee table's starting to look pretty sparse, eh?).
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There's a Noguchi coffee table and a collection of chairs with modern lines designed by architects, including Frank Gehry's Power Play chair, which looks like it's made out of wood shavings.
He looked dapper in a dark suit and tie and proved a gracious host, speaking excellent, if not always idiomatic, English for 90 minutes in his suite at the posh Carlyle Hotel, where a lesser-known novel by Alexandre Dumas lay open on the coffee table and a stack of European films on DVD sat next to a flat-screen television.
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In the relentless drive to turn physical things into virtual ones, the purpose served by the coffee table book will soon be served by the coffee table itself, and for the same reasons.
She ordered her coffin to be finished in red Chinese lacquer and used it as a coffee table before it became her final bed.
Japanese designers have brought to life a coffee table that becomes a futon plus table and chairs (by Kewb) as well as book shelves that are also jungle gyms (by Koichiro Hoshino).
The author is a man of particular tastes: Room accents include serving trays from a 1930s Douglas DC-3 airliner, a WWII-era coffin trolley turned coffee table, and reclaimed jet navigator chairs used as bar stools.
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