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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...outside, the place is unexceptional?a barn conversion set against a typically flat and watery Dutch landscape in Monnickendam, a town about 20 minutes outside Amsterdam. That is exactly what makes the interior of Ingeborg Ravestijn Antiques a greater surprise. For within, there's a roaring fire in the grate, stags' heads hung on the walls, a vast dining-room table set with fine silverware and a mass of etched-glass ship's decanters on the handsome sideboard. In the kitchen are stacks of exquisite porcelain and a little gathering of tiny figures, each designed to hold toothpicks. "I only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Open House | 4/17/2007 | See Source »

...Chelsea Grate...

Author: By FM Staff | Title: FM, We Hardly Knew Ye | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

Ragalie said the window was “obviously opened” and that he thought the intruder had entered the dorm by climbing over the grate from the street...

Author: By Rebecca M. Anders, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Theft Occurs in Claverly Suite | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

Rummel estimated that the distance between the street and the windowsill is six feet, and that the top of the grate is another three feet higher...

Author: By Rebecca M. Anders, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Theft Occurs in Claverly Suite | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

...managed to incorporate sex into each one of the windows in Leverett’s McKinlock Hall. It doesn’t take a sexually frustrated freshman to recognize the arrow-headed tip and vague double circles at the bottom. The centerpiece of each window’s metal grate appears phallic shaped (see photo). “I’ve always thought that it’s very Leverett,” says resident Jori A. Pearsall ’07. House Master and Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi asked not to be interviewed about the windows...

Author: By Sharon Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Phallic Enough | 10/11/2006 | See Source »

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