The businessman said he personally handed over cases stuffed with Libyan cash to Sarkozy and his chief of staff.
The armchairs were deep, the bathtub capacious; there were books and paintings and oddments scattered about, collections of silver cigar cases, stuffed birds and precious porcelains.
Inside, a four-story staircase serves as an artery connecting glass display cases stuffed with jeans, stacks of faded T-shirts, and a perfume bar for sampling fragrances.
Even at their starkest, glass cases stuffed with objects can be intriguing, inviting people to think about museums and how they go about making their choices.
In a film published on the investigative news website Mediapart, Ziad Takieddine, who introduced Sarkozy to Gaddafi, insists he handed over cases stuffed with cash to the former French leader and his chief of staff, Claude Guéant.
The youth of today no longer swap their sticky coins for jewel cases stuffed with Shapeshifters remixes or acoustic Happy Mondays covers by Starsailor.
"Business is bad this year; there are no tourists," the salesman said as the officer picked out his comb and a few other shoppers wandered in, browsing the display cases stuffed with knives for every budget, from $5 pocket knives less than 2 inches long to kitchen cleavers and decorative silver blades with deer horn handles.
Or a hearse". And there are shelves upon racks standing on display cases stuffed with Ausable Chasm ash trays, waffle irons, plastic coasters, Civitan plaques, aluminum egg cups, lava lamps, 1988 diaries with no entries, racks for souvenir spoons but no spoons--the standard harvest from all those garage sales.
"I have to admit that the upper- and lower-case stuff is distracting and somewhat kooky," said Mr. Bierut.
Commissioned as part of the city's year as European Capital of Culture, and drawing both on Dante's Paradiso and Blake's 'Jerusalem', this fascinating creation by the architecturally inspired dreamthinkspeak (the lower-case stuff looks affected but nothing else does) is infused both with ardour and irony.
