I decided it was because of the chair — a sort of dining-room chair, that looked out of place in a bathroom.
A dimly lit splatter-painted gray brick wall gives way to a sort of Upper East Side dining corridor, with a Ralph Lauren Home-style wide-striped ceiling and red-chintz-and-ticking-stripe upholstery.
Rose and Jones are big entertainers, so the entire front part of the apartment can become a sort of endless dining room (or a fashion runway), when a glass table descends from the ceiling and custom-made extensions are added to the tables in the kitchen and media room (designed by David Ellison with Rose), linking all the tables together.
In a phenomenon which arguably expresses more about the role of motorway service stations in modern British life than the pub, a fair proportion of customers were not long-distance travellers but local people who use the facility as a sort of out of-town dining area.
Environmentalists tout a sort-of pagan eschatology.
Vandaag (the name is Dutch for "today") is the sort of dining room you could move into with a couple of tattered leather armchairs, and sit all day, bare feet on the polished concrete floor, reading novels.
The larger of the two rooms — the inner one — which the occupant was using as a sort of business office where he also dined and slept, contained a long, low lacquer table and a sleeping pallet.
Behind the dining area is a sort of altar, aglow with candles and laden with exotic icons, and behind that is an open kitchen with a busy grill from which flames sometimes leap, as in a Wicca ceremony.
Celebrity residents, like the actress Christine Baranski and the playwright Larry Kramer, occasionally emerge to shop at J. Seitz & Company, a sort of stylish general store, or dine at Oliva, a first-rate Mediterranean cafe.
Oceana's is the sort of dining room that dwarfs couples and double dates.
