"Quiet" means dark, back-of-the-building; "cozy" means small; and "flexible" means "not really," as in the "flex 1BR" that is actually a studio with a nook.
A seat next to one of the huge hearths in the Purdy's Homestead building — a cozy Colonial begun by Joseph Purdy in 1775 and home to generations of Purdys for centuries — has long been a winter destination.
Whenever she feels the urge, Ms. Landau visits her holdings in the four-story, 25,000-square-foot building, with cozy sitting areas, a well-stocked library and handsome aluminum furniture by Warren MacArthur, a rediscovered designer of the 1920's and 30's, of whose work she owns some 150 examples.
SQUEEZING THE CUSTOMER This is a cozy building, narrow enough to feel as if you need to be invited upstairs, but it's smartly designed, like one very tall closet, with everything within reach.
On a recent Tuesday in Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn, a mime from Urban Stages led third graders at Public School 277 in trying to hold up an imaginary collapsing building in the cozy confines of their classroom.
The church he is looking for is not in a cozy building but is the people of God, warts and all, who are struggling to find meaning and are nurtured by that church and each other.
"However, over that same time period, they may very well be building up a cozy relationship and sense of false security, accepting management explanations when deeper digging is needed," said Lynn Turner, a former chief accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission and a proponent of auditor rotation.
The trail, which starts from a dead-end road and winds its way through a peninsular strip edged by tall large cottonwood trees, marsh grass, cattails and eight-foot-high reeds, delivers you to a faded brick building filled with cozy utilitarian rooms decorated in early 20th-century furniture and appliances.
The stage is an open-air belvedere on the bank of the river Rhône that looks like a stand overlooking the water, the cozy buildings of the area, and the remote green cliffs of the Croix-Rousse in the distance.
