Intimate rather than expansive, it's tucked inside a stone enclosure that's beguiling in its decrepitude.
She minimized paint (using plaster walls inside, stone outside and steel-clad windows) so as to avoid retouching work.
Utterly quiet even by the standards of a library inside a stone structure, the room insulates visitors from any distractions focusing the senses completely on the works.
Like a cherry with a stone inside, if you press it too hard, the stone will fly out.
Meanwhile, inside the Cloisters' stone walls, conservators and curators continue to immerse themselves, and their visitors, in the world of the Middle Ages, even as they contemplate apps and the contemporary-art set.
To get there, you have to pass a row of splendid shikumen (traditional stone-gate houses) , and the old-Shanghai textures continue once inside, with red-brick interior walls and reproduced stone gateways above doorways to rooms which are simple, but smart.
Inside the main house, a pink stone-floored entry hall has a large iron chandelier with yellow glass shades that hangs from a 13-foot ceiling.
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Inside, floors morph from wood to stone to tile, rooms are demarcated only by rattan-wrapped poles, and a staircase seems suspended by nothing more than plants.
Inside, a spiral staircase swoops from a playfully designed stone floor in the lobby to the bar level of the hotel.
Inside one of the classrooms of the grey 19th Century stone school building, there is a different kind of lesson going on.
Inside a 13th-century building, the restaurant's thick, stone walls are the colour of butterscotch.
In came noted tackler Joe Worsley, 6ft 8in second row Shaw and 17 stone centre Ayoola Erinle, but Johnson's plans were undermined inside the first 60 seconds.
The walls of stone enclosed in wire mesh filter in natural light at night, light from inside shines out through the basalt rocks.
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