The contrast between the house's rigid exterior and softer, more comfortable interior spoke to the designer who, too, balances similar strictness with sumptuousness in his collections.
Back home in Mexico City, meanwhile, construction of the Palace of Fine Arts, long postponed by the Mexican Revolution, was just about to be revived; inside the frothy white meringue of its traditional Beaux Arts shell, a spectacular Art Deco interior spoke to national ambitions for industrial progress.
The former ministry of the interior on Belgrade's Knez Milosa belies its own description, because it doesn't have an interior to speak of.
It is an attempt to engage the debate, but no frontline British politicians will be there to hear people such as the Colombian interior minister speak.
The country's pristine interior may speak for itself (although it needs to raise its voice a bit - how many people know that 90% of French Guiana is covered by some of the world's most pristine rainforest?); but, beyond that, the holiday market is hampered by a sea turned brown from Amazon outpourings and, with the euro as its currency, a status as the most expensive country on the continent.
The minimalist structure of the hotel allows the complex architecture and delightful interior decorations speak for itself.
The girl withdrew an antenna from its interior & spoke into the instrument, "I'm at the corner of 86th & Lexington, Ma.
Sarkozy, then interior minister, spoke of these projects as a place "where gangrene has set in".
Mr. de Maizière, the interior minister, spoke Sunday night with Janet Napolitano, the United States secretary of homeland security, to discuss the American travel alert.
If you've ever sat on your couch and wondered how it would look across the room, or whether the walls would look good in red, that was your inner interior designer speaking.
