Inside, art enthusiasts mingled with timepiece lovers within the lightly colored space highlighted with dark wood tones, straight lines and minimal furnishings.
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Inside, art enlivens the dark marble lobby by Singapore's LTW Designworks: guests are greeted by Australian artist Jane Cowie's 9.9-meter-tall glass tile installation depicting a koi pond and subtly etched scenes from China Merchant Group's 141-year-old history.
In other cases, like that of Prince Adam Karol Czartoryski-Borbon, a descendant of Polish royalty now living in London, Nazi German occupation meant the loss of their former palaces and the works of art inside them.
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It is a gracefully sited monument, and a showplace that flatters almost all the art placed inside it.
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Back in the 1980s, Japanese bankers poured billions of dollars into residential and commercial real estate and fine art both inside and outside their country, financing one of the biggest bubbles in modern history.
While it's already being used in art galleries and inside cameras (as sensor covers), Nippon Electric Glass is pushing hard to get its invisible glass featured on mobile devices -- the selling point here is simply to achieve the effect of somewhere in between glossy glass and matte glass, so that you'd get the best color vibrancy with minimal reflection.
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One of the first institutions inside the country to champion Saudi art was Athr, which launched in Jeddah in 2009.
James Turrell's light installations toy with your sense of space and dimension, and Yayoi Kusama makes your reflection part of the art when you step inside her mirror-clad, polka dot mannequin room.
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Inside and outside the museum, nature and art, and technology and art, work together.
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Inside, the 57S has a kind of "art-techo" look with lots of carbon fiber trim, but the cockpit is all business.
Cut to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, located eight blocks away, just inside Central Park.
It's an arrangement that recalls Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum with its new entrance pavilion by Renzo Piano, which now houses all the necessary but distracting museum functions such as ticketing and coat check to ensure that once inside the Venetian palazzo you are able to focus exclusively on art and taste.
"Modern art keeps changing, so this section communicates between the inside and outside, " Park adds.
But inside these towers of concrete and glass, people create community, art and meaning.
Inside, the Chanel-belted women had moved on, as art students and younger blondes in black leather hot pants made their way in.
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Renewed inside and out, the new Judd Foundation is poised to give the art world and the general public fresh insight into a whole artistic era, as well as an object lesson in the nuanced dialogue between architecture and art, when it reopens its doors in June.
In superficial ways, little has changed inside the 60, 000-square-foot financial room in CBOT's art deco building.
Sarah Lucas's sculptures may be tumble drier lint inside stockings, but their fleshy shapes on plinths draw to mind a whole tradition of art from Lucien Freud to Henry Moore.
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Inside of the design department of most companies, designers are like draftsman, or people who just work with clip art.
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