Popular drama includes shadow plays, performed by puppets reflected on a linen screen, and the orta oyunu, a type of improvised comedy.
The current inventory includes a 17th-century Swedish tall clock, an 18th-century Swedish drop-leaf table with its original paint, a set of 10 antique painted Venetian chairs and an 18th-century French linen screen decorated with charming country scenes painted in gray and orange.
In the lantern, the flame is shielded by a linen screen, but the light still goes through the linen.
Ms. Hamnett uses no costume changes, and the set is merely three linen screens on rollers, but there are a few ingenious, no-frills special effects.
He created large collages of maps, manuscript pages, and photographs taken from many sources, high and low alike, including his beloved Nympha figure, and arrayed them on black linen screens.
Digitally produced imagery on linen screens on the upper floor are an introduction to the designer's drawings, which are laid out in their original form — on notepads or scraps of bedside paper — on glass tables that run the length of the 40-meter, or 130-foot, gallery.
Ms. Bright's unpleated linen panels screen the windows like sheer movable walls, transmuting daylight into translucence.
White linen mesh screens gave the room a diffuse glow.
The 22-floor Ritz-Carlton New York Central Park will have 237 rooms and 40 suites (92 rooms will face the park), with Frette linens, flat-screen Sony televisions sets and Frédéric Fekkai bath amenities.
Sea Mountain Inn, a two-year old nude resort and spa in Desert Hot Springs, Calif., with room rates ranging from $269 to $900 a night, features Asian-influenced rooms with Egyptian bed linens, flat-screen TVs and natural mineral water pumped into the shower.
Gay cruises are nothing new, but a gay cruise on a five-star luxury sailing ship, on which the staterooms are outfitted with fine linens, flat-screen televisions and iPods, and the guests are outfitted in, well, nothing, could be the latest trend to hit the seas.
