Inside the crowded room, most of the jewels were arranged by color in velvet-lined cases, but the "Princie" got its own darkened room.

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She draped a bed in midnight blue velvet and put it in the living room (because a bed is more relaxing than a sofa, of course), tacked ikat fabrics over embroidered benches, and served couscous dinners wearing a djellaba.

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That may not seem like much difference, but this is a house, so you are talking about stopping in a doorway with a velvet rope across it to look into a room with five people versus twelve, and the experience is much better with five.

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In the living room, which has 58 feet of floor-to-ceiling windows facing Central Park, velvet couches are flanked by two abstract chairs one upholstered in nubby wool, the other a butterfly-shaped chair made out of wool and silk felt.

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He pulled hard on the restaurant door, forcing it open, and stumbled with his tattered flowers into the dark realm between the door and the velvet drapes that had been hung to keep the cold from sweeping in over diners at the front of the room.

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