From a party for hundreds at the Temple of Dendur in the Metropolitan Museum of Art to intimate apartment gatherings high above Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park, the Republican National Convention in New York next week will be a more lavish, and certainly more expensive, affair than the Democratic bash in Boston last month.
Unlike their predecessors, who made their mark on the city's social scene, they largely keep to themselves, more likely to hop between intimate apartment gatherings than to hit the town.
To convey the same message in your home, as say on your Flickr or Tumblr feeds, this week's Instructables How-To from Alexa Westerfield (a.k.a. Swelldesigner) will show you how to embed your good taste into your most intimate surroundings your apartment.
An impressive double marble staircase framing a Tiepolo fresco leads from the winter garden to the intimate private apartments with more treasures, including the private collection of Venetian and Florentine masterpieces.
Thomas invites Nina back to his apartment for intimate drinks.
But Michael Urie, who played Eric in the Fringe version and the film, said the passage of time and the play's intimate setting — Eric's apartment, depicted with little more than a window and a door — could work in its favor this time.
Simultaneously intimate and grand, the apartment, No. 15, encompasses 4,500 -square feet and is reached by a private elevator landing that opens onto an impressive 30-foot-long gallery with its original wood herringbone-and-marquetry floor and mahogany doors with classic P. E. Guerin hardware.
The new theater, in a space that has a separate entrance and that many town-house owners would rent out as a one-bedroom apartment, is intimate and flexible, with black walls and ceilings and very little else that is fixed.
And, if there was no sex, let alone an intimate relationship, in John Lawrence's apartment that night, how did the case come to be about both?
To fill this gap in her résumé, she pays for a surrogate mother, Angie (Amy Poehler), who not only carries Kate's fertilized eggs but, in an even more intimate gesture, moves into her apartment, having nowhere else to go.
The idea was to create a very intimate mood, inspired by an apartment.
