To hide LED lighting and an array of speakers in Mr. Bay's theater, Mr. Cooper is using a recurring pattern of large curved wooden forms that extend from floor to ceiling.

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Mies's large drawings of his crystalline visions of faceted and curved glass skyscrapers of 1921 and 1922 were quickly followed by studies for brick and concrete country houses, prescient and perfect in their assured abstraction.

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Its main room has a large bronze antelope head on a white adobe wall that tops a curved fireplace, known as a kiva.

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Schneider scrunches up his nose, a large oyster that has another smaller and deformed relative attached to its curved upper shell has caught his attention.

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