Dark timber floors, blue-cushioned chairs, high ceilings and glass panels provide comfortable environs for sampling dishes like coconut-crusted prawns with oven-roasted banana, or stuffed spatchcock in saffron cream.

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By day my two-bunk sleeping compartment looked a little spartan, with gray-blue upholstery and metal lounge chairs.

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The shallow hole was surrounded by salvaged chairs and shaded by a blue canvas canopy they had stolen from some resort because property was always already theft and anyway they had really wanted a canopy.

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The new store's powder blue and gold walls and velvet-upholstered chairs are inspired, she explained, by Marie Antoinette's theater in the Petit Trianon at Versailles.

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The ladylike silhouettes are about as simple as Ms. Herrera gets, but that's all the better to shine a spotlight on the charming patterns, which range from beach chairs to painterly daisies on a sky-blue background.

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The modern Arne Jacobsen chairs around the kitchen table are pink, green, blue, orange, yellow and red.

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