Fixing the broken security window catches on the attic floor of our house.
Instead of waking her husband, she tried the window catches, then went around checking the other rooms of the flat.
Facing the southwest, the room has high ceilings and large double casement windows with ornate window catches that provide ample light during the day.
Nonetheless, its window caught my eye; in it a mannequin was posed, appealingly louche in a sequined tank top and roll-cuff jeans.
"I wasn't allowed to replace some of the inauthentic window catches or doorknobs, so you have some from the 1800s, others from the 1950s or later".
But it is the way that material dimension embodies the image of the girl at the window — caught in the act of turning her head as if to listen for something she thought she heard outdoors — that cinches the deal.
Two months ago, the German artist Christian Jankowski was making coffee in his eighth-floor apartment, on Division Street, when something out the window caught his eye: a woman, dressed in a tank top and shorts, hula-hooping on a rooftop.
ERIN GINSBURG had arrived at Artcraft Silversmiths Inc. here, clutching the collection of window catches, locks, keyhole plates, doorknobs, fasteners, hinges and screws she had stripped from the doors and windows of her home.
On one of those indecisive early winter afternoons — warm in the sun, nippy out of it — Chucker Branch and Christine Lehner, his partner, were on the roof… Two months ago, the German artist Christian Jankowski was making coffee in his eighth-floor apartment, on Division Street, when something out the window caught his….
