The interplay of a wood ceiling, walls constructed from boards of differing lengths, and wood floorboards laid at an angle give the design a remarkable feeling of energy and flow.
The Viipuri Library's suspended, undulating, acoustic wood ceiling and roof landscape of skylights not only reappeared in Aalto's own work over the next 40 years, they encouraged a concern for form and light in its purest aspects.
Boasting original Victorian features, with marble fittings, dark wood panelling and ceiling fans, it gives visitors a "feeling you're back in 1928", says Joan Hewitt.
Housed in a 100-year-old adobe hacienda with a wood-beamed ceiling, the restaurant puts a Southwestern twist on Southern European dishes, such as pesto-crusted scallops with spicy polenta and wilted greens.
From the minute you walk in the door, the massive foyer entry leads you into an open and spacious sunken living room with pristine wood floors, accent ceiling lighting and two rock fireplaces.
The top floor houses the master bedroom, closets, a bathroom and a home office, and has a 15-foot-high ceiling with exposed wood beams.
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For the publisher of Vogue and the New Yorker, Mr Gehry built a sensuous series of alcoves made of glass and wood, with a blue titanium ceiling.
The sound of tools chipping wood and the whoosh of slow moving ceiling fans and every twenty minutes the chocolaty smell.
There are 9-foot floor-to-ceiling windows on three sides, a wood-paneled kitchen, a tiny bedroom just big enough for a bed, and a bathroom with a tub that looks out to the view.
Its domed ceiling, a later-Ottoman inspired, Spanish wood-lattice affair, rises to 23 feet.
Built in 1896, the main home has a three-story, wood-paneled entry, a dining room with an elaborate ceiling and a solarium.
Not long ago we lucked into one of the enormous royal suites for the night, named the Kipling Suite: polished wood floors, canopy bed, towering floor-to-ceiling windows lighting the plush parlor area.
The living and dining rooms are wrapped in wood planks and have cedar beams stretching nearly 35 feet across the ceiling.
Blue leather booths line the walls covered with Al Hirschfeld drawings, underneath dark wood molding contrasted with a modern splash of blue light at the ceiling's edge.
She ditched the ceiling fans, covered yellow walls with sage-colored wallpaper, darkened the blond wood floor and installed wool carpets.
Floor-to-ceiling folding-glass doors in the upper-level living room open onto a wood deck that is equipped with an outdoor kitchen, furniture, another television, patio heaters and, of course, more Haring-inspired murals.
He had little trouble in agreeing this, since it's been a key demand of his government - but Ms Wood then went on to warn of a "Barnett floor" turning into a "Barnett ceiling", locking in the alleged underfunding.
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