It was built to the specifications of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which bestows the Oscars, and designed to be more intimate and telegenic.
Monteverdi's Orfeo was designed to be an intimate experience and, although Matthew Eberhardt's production buckles under a concept in which Arcadia is a repressive Christian community and Hades is a 1980s pop video, the central performances of Natalie Perez, Clare Ghigo and Edmund Hastings are beautifully direct.
But waiting rooms have been designed to be "small and intimate," he added, "so patients don't feel like they're in a giant cattle pen".
Cruises are designed to be inexpensive and sail on a more intimate ship, the 704-passenger Adonia.
It is intimate, not public; it is conversational, colloquial, a thinking aloud, rather than a statement designed to be reported by journalists.
And each niche has a little flip-up door, designed to be opened and closed by viewers, to give them a different, more intimate art experience than usual.
The Commons was also designed to be too small to house all MPs at any one time, ensuring that debates would be confrontational yet intimate.
Kissing is meant to be intimate – and intimate means closely acquainted.
Music is meant to be intimate".
