Next, I saw a double stroller tucked into the corner of the minimalist reception area, decorated only with a large oak check-in table, funky inverted crystal chandelier and red Art Deco sofa.
The original pub benches have been put to use in the dining room and there's a discreet honesty bar in the corner of the main reception room, where guests can scrutinise the yellowing title deeds over a gin and tonic.
Yet, between talks, I kept finding myself drawn away from conversation and towards a strange musical instrument sitting, together with two of its creators, in one corner of the central reception room.
I was even introduced briefly to a sad-faced, bespectacled old man who was pointed out to me, standing there drably dressed in dark blue fatigues in a corner of the vast reception room.
I was kind of expecting a taxidermied dog standing stiffly in the corner of a reception hall, but it turns out this business was much more established.
Or, heck just setting a video camera on a tripod in the corner of the room to capture the reception.
The day before Gov. John G. Rowland said he opposed new casinos in Connecticut during his State of the State address, gambling was getting a different reception in another corner of the state.
Before the concert, Evans placed a camera and a microphone in a corner of Apple's reception area, so that when the police came in to complain about the noise which was expected they could be filmed and recorded.
At the end of the reception, she was huddled in a corner with Baryshnikov and Ratmansky, the three of them happily speaking Russian, or, rather, speaking ballet, sticking their feet out this way and that.
He made two difficult catches Monday, one a leaping, twisting reception in the back corner of the end zone over cornerback Otis Smith.
