He has credibility among high-art literary people, partly because of the public television format, I suppose -- two talkers at a table framed in close-up with no audience to intrude.
The apartment was sparsely decorated: a brown couch, a chair, a coffee table, framed prayers and a picture of Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic republic, on the wall.
Brey gestured toward another corner of the room, where Jim Boeheim, the 66-year-old Syracuse coach, was seated behind a table, framed by a large window that looked out on a gloomy Central Park — its treetops, fittingly, shrouded by rainclouds.
It's just I can't walk around – I should but I can't – thinking 'I am an artist.'" Warner's a big man, but shrinks over his Red Bull and ice as he sits at a table framed by the window of the bar of Edinburgh's Rutland Hotel.
To get to Koppelman, one must take a rickety elevator with a cage door to the top floor, and climb one more flight of stairs, which open onto a decidedly modern space that could be anywhere in Los Angeles — a big oak conference-room table, framed movie posters, chunky scripts stacked at casual angles.
In the front parlor, French bisque shepherdess lamps perch atop end tables, framed by heavy pink and gray curtains — "bishop's sleeve drapes," Mr. Burke informs a visitor.
Ever since he started working there — a light-filled space with sturdy drafting tables, framed art and foliage — instead of at home, he said recently, "I've been doing some of the best work of my life".
(He could pan and tilt, but zooms were too unsteady. These had to be done by a specialist, expensively, at an animation table, frame by frame).
And in the middle of it all is a superb bronze sculpture by Banks Violette, something like a black, elongated Sol LeWitt, or possibly a coffee table frame — slightly burnt.
