So I thought if we could close off the upstairs we could maybe fill the downstairs part of the club, which was 600 people.
During parties at our house, a cloud like an inversion layer would fill the downstairs, and the next morning, when Anne and I went down to pour bowls of cereal for ourselves and wait for cartoons to come on, there would be overflowing ashtrays everywhere, and sodden cigarette butts floating in the bottoms of almost-empty beer glasses, whose sides were spider-webbed with dried foam.
A work called Lumber fills the downstairs gallery.
All the free-standing bookcases collapsed at some point, spilling even the volumes I thought might have survived on the highest shelves into the slimy floodwater that filled our downstairs for three weeks.
The next four sections fill the large downstairs galleries, beginning with the 18th century.
He ran downstairs, filled a garbage can with water, ran up and threw it on the Greenes' door.
A woman in plastic flip-flops carried a black bucket filled with urine downstairs, accompanied by a young boy wearing only underwear.
From its launch in 1980, to the summer of 1985, when the magazine moved to fancy pants Covent Garden, i-D was produced from the top floor of Terry and Tricia Jones's terraced house in West Hampstead; and, having worked a 12-hour day, Tricia would always invite us downstairs and fill us up as though we had just stepped out of the poor house in Oliver Twist.
By some clocks it was Happy Hour, and the bars downstairs had filled and emptied a time or two.
We emptied half of the shelves that we'd just filled, carried the books downstairs, and started over.
