It includes an exercise room, spa bath, beauty and therapy room, landscaped gardens, a lounge and an activity room.
Gerber is a restless iconoclast, shifting from one style to another, from abstraction as in his colourful Rorschach-influenced canvases, to the kitsch of lounge room landscapes of alpine trees and waterfalls, to the specific visual codes of pornography, prizefighter portraits and interlocking corporate-style logos.
They are presented along with drawings of rooms, landscapes and domestic objects by the wonderful self-taught artist James Castle.
Ms. Mayhew, 40, is a longtime decorating editor (now a contributor to the "Today" show and House Beautiful) who has spent decades styling rooms; landscaping mantels, bookshelves and side tables; and choosing paint colors.
And the College of Wooster in Ohio is trying to hold on to financially struggling students, and their tuition dollars, by offering minimum-wage summer jobs in its "WooCorps," which has almost 200 students painting rooms, landscaping and growing vegetables this summer.
In the Montclair Art Museum is a room of landscape paintings by the artist George Inness, who lived in Montclair from 1885 to 1894.
(The stripes would give the room "a landscape," Mr. Kassel said, "and make it feel a little bit bigger").
The absence of proximal cues forced the participants to rely on distal features of the environment (room walls, landscape elements) and tested their ability to use allocentric (world-based) navigational strategies requiring cognitive mapping.
I discussed this problem last December in Redesigning Designing to Make Room for Landscape, but this new NEA study, notable staff changes at The New York Times and The Washington Post, and recent conversations with well-respected architecture critics Paul Goldberger and James Russell prompted another look at the issue.
They have been laid out roughly by date and genre: a room of landscapes, a room of portraits, an interlude of drawings, with the order repeated.
