Heterogeneous perforated panels are of great interest as sound absorbers, while achieving a smart high-end decoration in meeting rooms, showrooms, conference halls, etc.
The former piano showroom and recital hall will soon serve as the luxury health club for residents of 111 West 57th Street, a 435-metre tall, 18-metre wide wafer of a building.
Down one street stands a mammoth gems and jewellery showroom, where an expansive hall is packed with 40 gleaming high-end jewellery stalls.
A showroom can quickly become a hall of mirrors where list prices, equipment options, trade-ins and financing packages can be manipulated by a sharp salesman to produce what seems an attractive purchase -until the elements are sorted out.
The preserved timber-framed great hall was once a showroom for fine wines, clothing and spices.
A spiral auto ramp corkscrews through the center of the hall, connecting the main showroom to the street.
Moving pianos in another sense (i.e., selling them) was the subject of James B. Stewart's "Matchmaker," about Erica Feidner, a salesperson at Steinway & Sons' West Fifty-seventh Street showroom, which is known as Steinway Hall.
"It comes with apartments, a car showroom, an office block, a town hall, a department store, a hotel and a cafe," said Mr O'Hara.
The first being the disparities between reality and image, represented by the songs "Hall of Mirrors" and "Showroom Dummies", and the others about the glorification of Europe.
Down the hall from the rancorous WMS showroom, in a more peaceful maze of cubicles, are mathematicians, writers, artists and engineers working on 90 new games a year, many of them multiplayer.
