You enter through an opulent hallway, with walls of white marble, before coming to a contrasting galpón (outhouse), with a fig tree growing through its middle.
But the story of the places themselves living rooms, basements, opulent theatres, hallways, baseball stadiums, night clubs, bars, high schools, intersections, recording studios, bowling alleys, former cotton plantations, civic auditoriums, prisons still feels largely untold.
The four-story hotel is built in an opulent British-colonial style, with deep wooden hallways, crystal chandeliers and giant metal room keys.
Anthony Jones can make concrete walls vanish with a stroke of his hand, turn blank closet doors into elegant marble hallways and transform drab rooms into opulent mansions.
In contrast to The Armory Show's office space-style carpeting, labyrinthine exhibition space, and opulent champagne lounge, Spring/Break is framed by weathered hallways with an air of forgotten purpose, and centered around a surreal bar featuring murals by Jessica Mensch.
The Movement is headquartered in an opulent mansion in the Brussels suburbs, with chandeliers in the hallway and cigars in the study.
After checking in to their then-opulent rooms at the Belmar, and perhaps taking a stroll around the hotel's plush, gilt-lined hallways and exotic gardens, the gentlemen put on tuxedos while their ladies slipped into crushed velvet gowns for a gala night of dinner and dancing in the Belmar's elegant ballroom.
Her father, Warner LeRoy, created opulent, knock-your-socks-off spectacles like the Tavern on the Green restaurant in New York, which has curvy mirrored hallways reminiscent of a fun house.
Two more opulent volumes.
