Both the heat insulation and heat storage capabilities of the phase-change, energy-storing wall are superior to those of an ordinary wall.
Buy large bags of beans and lentils; they store wall and they don't go bad for a long time.
Think about the visual richness of a yarn store wall full of cubbyholes of mohair, Lamb's Pride, angora, worsted, chunky and Top of the Sheep.
In his story "Death and the Compass," Borges gussied up a tawdry tale of revenge with, as he put it, "a dead rabbi, a compass, an 18th-century sect, a Greek word, a dagger and the diamond-shaped patterns on a paint-store wall".
Take a look at that slim plasma screen hanging on the store wall with gorgeous Van Gogh images, and you may not bother wondering where all the wires went.
Customers will be able to research their electronics needs on touch screens on store walls, examine merchandise and try out equipment like headphones.
So will new paintings that evoke the company's coffee heritage — as opposed to what Mr. Rubinfeld calls the generic "Pier 1 art" dotting some store walls now.
Adorning the stores walls are framed photographs, all the work of Ms. Kleck, who, besides being shopkeeper, is a professional portrait photographer.
It's been that kind of week at the Cedarhurst Paper store, wall-to-wall Halloween shoppers and nary a one who wants to be simply a ghost or witch.
It is a place where Genoa's beautiful people gather, with décor taken straight from some chic Italian design store: walls awash in gleaming white, high-backed brown leather chairs, tables propped up by thin stem-like legs.
Back in May, Waitrose employed poet Roger McGough to adorn the stores' walls with verse in order to make the experience of shopping there more pleasurable (one of the poems is called Tofu and the Tiger).
