The council commissioned the oval, hinged boxes (each three inches long) from Samuel Johnson, a goldsmith, and Peter Rushton Maverick, an engraver.
Mr. Kayes, an author with the current parliamentarian of a book on Senate procedure, spent hours combing through Congressional records dating back to the 1940's, examining precedents and compiling them in two black binders, each three inches thick.
One Cuban Black (right), made of four tiles, each eight inches square, and selling for $203, shows a dog.
He reached into a cupboard and pulled out two cazuelas, each eight inches in diameter, and brushed them with olive oil.
She has created "tiles" of white, milk and dark chocolate; sugar; fruit paste; brownies; and shortbread, above, each six inches square and stamped with an intricate floral pattern.
This minimalist product from Bluw, a London design firm, consists of a pair of curvy rubber strips, each six inches long.
On the floor of George Condo's studio on East Seventy-eighth Street, portraits of Queen Elizabeth II were laid out in rows of three ninee portraits, oil on canvas, each one sixteen inches wide by twenty inches high.
In every bay, a dozen horizontal aluminum planks, each nine inches high, can be stacked up to form a solid barrier.
And bacon was a revelation: two thick slabs, each nine inches long, redolent of applewood smoke and a perfect match for the garlicky, peppery chimichurri sauce served on the side.
There they lie in their guttered drawers, projecting from the rosewood desk I had specially made for them: four yards of cards, each eight inches wide, five inches tall, most of them with his initials handwritten, headline style, in the top left-hand corner, from "rr's birth zodiac feb.
There they lie in their guttered drawers, projecting from the rosewood desk I had specially made for them: four yards of cards, each eight inches wide, five inches tall, most of them with his initials handwritten, headline style, in the top left-hand corner, from "rr's birth zodiac — feb.
