Word: foyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...architect's play with scale is apparent in the monumental entrance to the building, which rises 57 feet and leads into a foyer of heroic proportions. This light, open area includes an enormous staircase that rises to the top floor of the building. Alongside the stairway, early Christian Coptic reliefs are inset in the bands of color--these are the only pieces of art currently inside the Sackler...
...white triangular roofs, extruding yellow strips and even more extruding blue boxes. The houses are designed to provide young urban professional tenants with a sense of efficiency and space on minimal, close-to-downtown lots, and at a reasonable cost. The typical unit contains a garage, a foyer and a ½-story living room on the first level, a dining balcony and kitchen on the second, and on the third a den, master bedroom and "Hollywood" bathroom-a tripartite affair in which two powder rooms adjoin a common bath. Price of the only unsold unit...
...except for piles of boxes. Michael is going to build a miniature of the Disneyland ride Pirates of the Caribbean here. It is pretty dark and I cannot see well. We walk into the kitchen. It is gleaming: white tile floors, chrome-and-black ovens, stove and appliances. The foyer of the house is Lighted by a chandelier dangling from the ceiling two floors above. The circular staircase leading to the second floor is carpeted in green, the floor is white marble. A square gold-leaf table holds a vase with an armful of flowers. There is a grandfather clock...
...trophy room" is off the foyer. The walls are covered with gold and platinum albums and singles. Mahogany cases, the kind museums use for displaying rare manuscripts, glint with gold and platinum. Jackson walks me to the screening room. The walls and the curtain drawn across the screen are teal blue. The 32 seats are upholstered in red velvet. In the den is a horseshoe-shaped viewing area, with a couch facing a fireplace and a builtin television set. Another large clock with Roman numerals hangs above the mantelpiece. Off the den is a mahogany bar under a leaded stained...
...leaning against a wall. All the windows in the house are leaded glass with beveled panes. We start out the open gate, when suddenly the guard in the security station runs and calls after us. We return to the house. Michael's parents are waiting in the foyer. Katherine Jackson calls me by name and says, "There have been a lot of rumors about Michael, that he has had operations to have his eyes widened and his cheeks changed and everything. Those things are simply not true. He had only one operation, on his nose. We were hoping...