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The old-fashioned home has built-in sonic barriers: walk-in closets, pantries, corridors, separate floors, thick walls.
Staggered Studs. Instead of placing sleeping and living areas wall to wall, the builders separate them with rows of closets in which the clothes themselves act as insulation. The studs in the Fiberglas-insulated walls are staggered, so that no single stud touches both sides of the wall, therefore cannot...
Heaters and air-conditioning units are segregated from the rest of the house in acoustically sealed closets, and all air ducts are lined with Fiberglas or board. Dishwashers and disposals are housed in rubber and glass-wool casings to cushion vibrations. Even the underbellies of sinks are swathed in felt...
Rose confesses that he will miss his sculpture, which has sat niched away in closets, cellars and theaters. "Outside of the fact that you can't cuddle up to art," says he, "I get from it very much the same sort of joy that I get out of friendship...
He nonetheless keeps the action tumbling in and out of mirrors, closets, mantels, trap doors. And sneaky camerawork by France's formidable Henri Decae imbues the décor with glittering menace. As the ne'er-do-well whose passions surge at the drop of a bank note...