And the basement, a workaday space with factory-style fluorescent lights, became a haunt for famous pianists with a recital or a concert on the calendar.
Matmos's performance of Robert Ashley's bonkers spoken-word opera Perfect Lives is indeed perfection: a workaday tale of Hopper-style nighthawks that draws in astrophysics, child development theories and boogie woogie, whipping it all into absurdly slippery kitsch.
Mostly, he handles even workaday matters with panache.
The titles and credits are presented in a typographic style associated with the workaday functionalism of 1960s modernism.
Her style is a friendlier, more workaday version of the haughty self-abasement practiced by Sarah Silverman, another junior Rivers, leavened by the everywoman spirit of Kathy Griffin.
His writing style is quiet and intelligent, sometimes workaday - not for him the all-or-nothing razzle-dazzle of a Martin Amis, whose every sentence bears his distinctive logo, but storytelling and characters in a safe pair of hands.
Others on the list are more workaday affairs, revealing the emergence of a particular house style among some of the bigger breweries.
Caftan styles turned up at Luella Bartley, lithe workaday shirtdresses at Miguel Adrover.
The Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection galleries are boxy, white, workaday, with art lined up on the walls, shopping mall style.
His famously unadorned style of writing juxtaposed the indifferent routine of his workaday world with irresistible bouts of drinking, debauchery and equivocal stabs at human connection.
All the puffed-up luxury of a cocktail waitress's style, or a stripper's, on top of such a workaday face and body.
