On Fashion's Night Out (Sept . 8, the windows of Marc Jacobs's Bookmarc store in Greenwich Village will be done up in tableaux recreating that singular abode.
But this is about more than appliance sales; it sounds like a nascent effort to stake a claim in the networked home, that much ballyhooed abode where television, music, the Internet, home security systems and ok maybe even refrigerators are all wirelessly connected to one and other.
And: "We could see Fallingwater as a kind of architectural F.D.R.: a patrician dwelling that passed for the abode of one of the people".
That term is often applied to a small, charming, slightly down-at-the-heels abode that a young couple can afford to live in a few years before moving to larger, grander quarters.
A couple easing into retirement may demolish their house to sell the land in order to move into a smaller abode that they must then build from scratch.
By the '60s, some 300 people were living at the house, with little inkling that their humble abode was once the palatial estate of one of Macao's most prominent families.
After requests from its long-term dwellers, the hotel received special government permission to let them register their capsules as their official abode; that made it easier to land job interviews.
It struck him that this fine abode was his own and he remarked, "Not bad!" Oddly, though, he had not explored the lower floor and so he descended the staircase to see.
But perhaps more than Qadri's calls, or the controversy over his intentions, it's his curious abode that may say more about Pakistan's prospects: Since Monday the cleric has been sounding the clarion from within the confines of a yellow shipping container parked in front of Parliament.
There's a museum of south Indian art on one of the islets, but to truly breath in the historical settings, request a room in the High Noon residence, a 200-year-old abode that was bought, dismantled and restored piece by wooden piece on Vaamika.
