This facility will shed light on some of the oldest questions ever asked by mankind, questions of the deepest fabric of reality and the very origins of the universe itself.
And at British Airways, the design of the newly introduced first class cabin was based on the interior of a Rolls Royce, with Connolly leather, faux walnut wood, rich fabrics and a deep, soothing color palette.
Swaths of deep blue fabric hold tiny lights that twinkle like stars at ceiling level.
Carpeting and plush, deep brown fabric give it a feel of elegance while muffling sound.
Konrad Bernheimer, the Munich dealer who owns Colnaghi of London, staunchly hangs his Old Master paintings on deep red fabric, wall to wall, row upon row, as was customary 50 or 60 years ago.
Dangling on hangers, ready for delivery, were rows of dress uniforms — complete with the familiar insignia, the gold buttons, the deep blue fabric — intended for use for formal occasions by New York City police officers.
They do appear, in a manner of speaking, in two windowless rooms lined with deep black fabric, each painting relentlessly lit by spotlights to the point where textures seem flattened out and one or two might as well have been airbrushed.
One of the very first, Untitled (Man with White Shoes), contained – deep breath – fabric, newspaper, a photograph of Jasper Johns, a handwritten letter from Rauschenberg's son, a drawing by Twombly, glass, mirror, tin, cork, a pair of the artist's socks and painted leather shoes, dried grass and a taxidermied Plymouth Rock hen.
Such was the mélange of color and deep pile fabrics that each outfit — except one with the shock of scarlet — seemed to be in a single tonal shade.
