"I'd spend 10 hours doing a mural on a wall thinking it was only 10 seconds, " he said.

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In the downstairs powder room artist Tracey Price painted a celestial scene on the ceiling and a French countryside wall mural.

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King Cole Bar at the St Regis is instantly recognizable for its Maxfield Parrish mural that lines the wall behind the bar.

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The 40ft mural, on a wall inside St Mark's Church in the city's Swanswell area, is said to depict the second coming of Christ.

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Peter Dean Rickards bought the wall which featured the mural from a bar in Kingston and intentionally smashed it.

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The original, red-tinged mural of jazz players splashes across the wall.

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The new mural that appeared on the north London wall depicts a woman in a nun's habit, but it is not known if it is by Banksy.

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Former NFL players were on hand to sign autographs for guests, and one wall was transformed into an enormous mural of plasma screens so no one would miss a moment of pre-game entertainment or commentary.

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The showroom also features a big mural of about 3, 000 white ping-pong balls on a Venetian-tile entry wall.

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