Off-duty miners, who were glad to get a fiver at Newcastle market for their efforts, now have their paintings carefully hung in controlled temperatures and shown off under concealed lights.
For starters, it is flooded with light: light from lamps, from recessed ceiling lights, from concealed lights within floor-to-ceiling frosted-glass panels built into the walls, and from light reflected from the polished stainless steel in which the three four-foot-square concrete pillars are sheathed.
By designing a system of banding and concealed lighting, he has created galleries properly proportioned for hanging art.
The Architectural Record paid a call, describing a walnut fold-down counter with concealed lighting as "an urbane bar for people of quiet habits".
The walls and ceiling usually contain concealed light and sound equipment and air extracts or inlets and may be highly decorated.
Inspired by Jean Arp and Alexander Calder, the lamps consist of 11 feet of galvanized pipe with a concealed light at the top, which bounces a soft, candlelike glow off a galvanized steel leaf.
Now the Brantons enter a foyer with a curved ceiling, concealed lighting and a chair rail to define the yellow wall above and wallpaper below -- decorated, of course, in their quirky style.
This underground network often incorporated or included concealed light rail lines, hospitals, command posts, water reservoirs, ammunition stores, mortar and machine gun posts, and communication centres.
Often incorporated into subways were concealed light rail lines, hospitals, command posts, water reservoirs, ammunition stores, mortar and machine gun posts, and communication centres.
And throughout the house, an automatic lighting system with special dimming effects conceals light fixtures underneath cupboards, behind sinks and in other curious places.
Windows must be blocked off or painted black to obscure the outside light; zigzagging hallways are constructed to isolate rooms; and each of the rooms has to be built according to Turrell's meticulous designs, with hidden pockets to conceal light bulbs and strange protruding corners that confuse the eye.
