The interior darkness, which at first seems complete, as if you were in a shipping container or an oven, is actually broken by small punctures in the ceiling patterned like constellations of stars.
After controlling for observable differences in individual and job characteristics as well as for non-random selection, the adjusted gender gap in performance pay reaches 26 log points, displaying a glass-ceiling pattern.
The theatre had the grandeur of a cathedral: blood-red velvet curtains framed the stage; golden ceilings, patterned with blue-and-purple paisleys, soared over vaudeville-era balconies and plush seats.
Preserved vintage details include pocket doors, a coffered dining-room ceiling and patterned window panes.
A wide glass shower surround frames a floor-to-ceiling confetti pattern of glass mosaic tiles in sea greens and blues.
If you've got low ceilings, vertical-patterning can help trick the eye.
"If you do a pattern ceiling, you just have to make sure that pattern and color is somehow echoed in pattern of the fabric or the rug or the colorations that you use below, so it doesn't stand out so much that it detracts from the rest of the room," she says.
This room also had a coffered ceiling, but in patterns of six-pointed stars.
The store's drippy heat-formed plastic ceiling and swirl-patterned epoxy floor echo work of Brazilian modernists like Oscar Niemeyer and Roberto Burle Marx.
The lounge off the squash courts is one of the astounding rooms in New York — its patterned ceiling in gold, buff and green billows in like a festival tent.
I was taken to a large brick cabin where the family watched television from thinly-strung divans in an exquisite, shaded room indented floor to ceiling with abstract patterns a finger deep.
