Founded 75 years ago by the businessman and collector George Hewitt Myers, it occupies a pair of brick town houses that retain signs of their domestic origins.
On the day I visited, I certainly didn't feel like fighting as I padded around the store — gleaming, compact and particular — in a pair of brick-soled navy suede Mark McNairy saddle shoes ($295).
Since the museum opened in 1985, only a discreet plaque by the entrance to its home -- a pair of brick buildings on a quiet street in Long Island City, Queens -- has alerted visitors to its presence.
At the Opening Ceremony sample sale a couple of weeks ago, I tried my best to make a pair of brick-red trousers fit right, largely because I knew they'd go perfectly with my favorite pair of gray suede bucks.
Then each participant was given a pair of concrete bricks, which they wielded to "When You Sleep," by My Bloody Valentine.
A pair of tall, brick hop kilns greet us in all their rustic loveliness.
Naldi v. Grunberg involves a dispute over a pair of adjacent brick apartment buildings in Midtown Manhattan, at Nos. 15 and 19 West 55th Street, owned by Michael Grunberg, a major landlord.
Built in their place were several crisp apartment blocks by I. M. Pei and a pair of angular brick theaters by the Chicago architect Harry Weese, who later designed Washington's Metro stations.
For much of the last 700 years, however, the most prominent residents of the quarter just north of the Forbidden City have been a pair of massive brick towers whose drums and bells helped Beijing's citizenry keep track of the hour.
Opposite the new development, a pair of dark-brick 1930s semis provide a perfect compare-and-contrast exercise, says Leanne Monchuck, a researcher from the University of Huddersfield who is writing her PhD on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design – an academic theory focusing on tactical design which aims to reduce both crime and the fear of crime.
