Still, the mansion has a homey rather than an imperial air.
Give assigned seats, and rather than desks, give a homey appeal and give tables.
That's why to see Zefferelli's La Boheme this week at the Metropolitan Opera was all of a crazy piece: a girl swooning in a garret after being caught outside in a frigid snowstorm (frozen water, after all), dying of love for a man who'd rather hang out with his homeys and thus doesn't pay enough attention to her until it's too late.
The rather spare décor has a few homey touches — checkered napkins, scarred tables, a photo of a trophy swordfish hanging on the wall — but nowhere is this unpretentiousness more appreciated than in the presentation of the affogato.
Save for a golf course where the moneyed hit balls oceanside and a high-ticket office with the usual mausoleum marble, the locations are often homey, sometimes downright homely, textured rather than slicked up.
We get it!" That agenda has to do with Jewish identity and self-acceptance and facing one's memories of Nazi camps rather than burying them under a facade of homey sweetness and light.
Here, in a neighborhood where time is measured in lives routinely cut short, Shakespeare's "ancient grudge" is measured in days rather than generations, its pair of "star-crossed homeys" resigned to their own deaths from their first meeting.
"We wanted to create a homey feeling for small to midsized companies rather than a large corporate look, which is what the transition of Harrison Executive Park is all about," he added.
For employees, sitting in comfortable, homey chairs while they're on break, rather than office chairs or cheap fold-out seats, can make a world of difference in recharging for the rest of the day.
It is homey, satisfying and, despite the deceptively bland exterior, rather clever.
It offers familiar, homey dishes that achieve success through superior execution rather than creative twists.
