In keeping with all the best Italian enotecas (wine bistros), the ceiling is hung with a variety of dried salamis, held together with frayed strings and wax.
The stylized mural of the original high, arched, Fifth Avenue entrance, a geometric abstraction of industrial gears and wheels executed in gold and aluminum leaf, had been painted over and partly destroyed by a hung acrylic ceiling and fluorescent fixtures.
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The centerpiece of the gala evening, and of the exhibit, was a huge crown of thorns that hung from the ceiling.
Easy to set up and install, it needs no complex color and image alignments, and it can be easily installed on a table or a rear wall or hung from the ceiling.
He painted the walls with a mixture of lime to retard crumbling and hung muslin on the ceiling to catch falling dirt, just as the settlers did.
It is an ancient-looking room, with a gleaming floor buffed by many feet for many years, its low willow-branch ceiling and beams brightly painted and hung with banners, the walls depicting floating Buddhas and snarling, dark-faced demons.
Most of the damage there was also from smoke and heat, suggesting that the fire had started farther down the hallway, and he headed that way, stepping over debris and ducking under insulation and wiring that hung down from the exposed ceiling.
Two lofted beds flanked the large room, and high overhead, an umbrella hung upside down from an exposed ceiling pipe, as if Mary Poppins had once crash landed naked here.
But any insights into the later 19th-century American work are finessed for a nostalgic re-creation of a period installation with paintings hung close and "skied" to the ceiling, and a crowd of heroic figures and marble maidens on the floor.
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