Word: tiled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Changed from the Southern-style, Anglo-Saxon name of Johnson's Station in honor of German Immigrant Karl Ludowici, 19th century roofing-tile manufacturer, who gave $1,000 toward a new school building...
...Braniff Airways Captain George R. Teskey is one of three stockholders in a Dallas wholesale brick-and-tile distributing company, House of Bricks and Tile, Inc., which grosses about $250,000 a year...
...decor is traditionally Spanish black and white. The floor is black and white tile, the walls are white stucco. A mural maintaining the black and white motif will eventually fill one wall. The room is discreetly well lit, and the limited number of tables avoids the danger of overcrowding...
Treatment of the building's interior walls varies greatly on each floor. Some walls are covered with colored tile, others with brick or stucco design, still others with mahogany battened strips. Corridors on all but the first floor are bound by sheets of opaque glass. In every part of the building the designers attempted to achieve a sense of three dimensionality, Aspasquella noted...
...below, a long and large gallery at either end, and a basement that converts easily from exhibition halls into lecture rooms. To cut the glare from artificial lights, all walls are faced with a light beige fabric; grey and brown terrazzo floors are offset by stairways trimmed in green tile...