The painting occupies a specially designed double-height gallery visible from a distance as you enter.

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Window curtains in her double-height living room are made of Josef Frank's Celotocaulis fabric ordered from Svenskt Tenn's website.

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The screen stops well above the sidewalk, revealing V-shaped concrete supports and a glass-walled ground floor with views of a double-height sunken gallery inside.

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It has a 57-foot-wide, double-height "grand salon" facing Central Park.

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There's little delineation between the indoor and outdoor spaces: The paved entrance path leads visitors directly through a double-height living room and out past the pool toward the open water.

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Inside, there is about 3, 000 square feet, with a 28-foot-wide octagonal double-height living room with a library at one end and doors opening out to a terrace on the other.

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Apartments with double-height living spaces were all taken, but we found a duplex that was 15 feet wide by 28 feet long on the first level and a little larger on the second.

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Throughout, the defining characteristics are expansiveness and light: Ceilings soar to double and triple height, and wherever a wall could be made of glass, it was.

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The water is full of darting and jumping fish, and the mangrove roots -- some the height of a double-decker bus -- tower over the boat.

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The Rolls-Royce Ghost rides on a sophisticated double wishbone suspension up front with a multi-link array at the rear and automatic damping height-adjustable shock absorbers at all four corners.

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