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.
Nikki Maurer, for instance—at 24, the club's youngest member kept her '84 Superior Sovereign Three-Way in the same condition as when she acquired it, letting its lavish, steel-blue cushioned interior speak for itself.
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.
"ONE can lounge -- or two can cuddle," said Ilene Wetson, a New York interior designer, speaking about a piece of furniture called a chair-and-a-half.
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.
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.
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.
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.
