The Pantry, an intimate living room of a space on the far north end of Friedrichstrasse, manages to tick almost all of the boxes, from chic but cozy design (giant caramel-toned leather sofa seats, a wall of gold tiles and natural wood floors and tables) to tasty upscale Iberico-Asian dishes like beef tataki (small portion, 12 euros).
Recently, they built a 99-seat movie theater, the Pioneer, at 155 East Third Street, near Avenue A. Arthur Jay Hibbs, an architect in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., collaborated on the cozy design, with Victorian-style chairs, love seats and lobby tiles, below, in a crazy-quilt color scheme.
The restaurant has six cozy booths designed for two, which have panels that muffle sound, so that conversations are private.
Now "Masterpiece Theater" is a catchphrase, both scorned and beloved, for reliable, entertaining escapes into a cozy, prettily designed past, the middle-brow version of a guilty pleasure.
She added, "I certainly did not write 'Behzti' to offend," but she continued, "Theater is not necessarily a cozy place, designed to make us feel good about ourselves.
The show begins not with a set-your-teeth-on-edge overture, followed by strained, synthetic belting, but with Riabko seated upstage left, a guitar slung across his chest; he is in what looks like a funky recording studio with stacks of pillows, rugs, and fabrics draped over sofas — a cozy environment designed by Christine Jones and Brett Banakis.
The show begins not with a set-your-teeth-on-edge overture, followed by strained, synthetic belting, but with Riabko seated upstage left, a guitar slung across his chest; he is in what looks like a funky recording studio with stacks of pillows, rugs, and fabrics draped over sofas a cozy environment designed by Christine Jones and Brett Banakis.
Wrapping listeners in a mood as tightly as Sade does is not something many artists can do well, let alone making an arena feel like a cozy, high-design living room.
While Hedin and his Ball State syllabus are both far too cozy with Intelligent Design for my liking, his class exploring deism is far from an evangelistic presentation of Christianity as some are claiming.
The cozy bricked interior designed by Doroth?Meilichzon is obviously nice.
In the middle is a broad terrace with cozy furniture custom-designed by Gandia Blasco, a Spanish company that does pergolas for beach resorts, Mr. Tarr told me by telephone this week.
