Bache Cellar is a huge, funky restaurant with barely a wooden ceiling and sand for a floor.

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The local press says Japanese firms won a multimillion-dollar contract for wooden ceiling beams after bidding at least twice as much as U.S. rivals.

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It also said there was damage to wall and ceiling plaster and wooden panelling inside.

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The new Olympic Studios still has a charming vintage feel, retaining many of the original ceiling beams, wooden floors and exposed brick walls.

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It is hand-painted in the ceiling, carved in wooden doors and fashioned in the cast-iron latticework of the window guards.

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To hide LED lighting and an array of speakers in Mr. Bay's theater, Mr. Cooper is using a recurring pattern of large curved wooden forms that extend from floor to ceiling.

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In the sun room, for example, where Mr. Ye kept the traditional blue-gray-black wall paintings, the workers decided to save money by using plastic in the ceiling blinds instead of the wooden slats Mr. Ye had requested.

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It is being held in a huge formal courtroom with squeaking wooden benches, white chair rails and gilded ceiling medallions.

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At the back of the shop, dim but for a single lamp hanging from the ceiling, there were a few unvarnished wooden tables.

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There were wooden cases of wine stacked all the way to the ceiling of the cellar wines of impeccable pedigree and provenance, but in a bit of a perilous jumble.

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