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  • They range from the kitschy "La Maison Voyageurs," with a stuffed Bengali tiger, mock-tortoise sofa and giant live palm in the living room to the high-ceiled zen-white Maison Blanche, filled with only white furniture a Barcelona banquette by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a marble table by Florence Knoll and Plexiglas chairs by Philippe Starck.

    Coasting High in Provence Lanie Goodman 2011

  • Kiefer's show is awesome when the works are viewed individually as well as when viewed panoramically in Gagosian's benevolently high-ceiled West Chelsea space s.

    David Finkle: Anselm Kiefer's Magnificent Must-See Gagosian Gallery Show David Finkle 2010

  • Kiefer's show is awesome when the works are viewed individually as well as when viewed panoramically in Gagosian's benevolently high-ceiled West Chelsea space s.

    David Finkle: Anselm Kiefer's Magnificent Must-See Gagosian Gallery Show David Finkle 2010

  • Kiefer's show is awesome when the works are viewed individually as well as when viewed panoramically in Gagosian's benevolently high-ceiled West Chelsea space s.

    David Finkle: Anselm Kiefer's Magnificent Must-See Gagosian Gallery Show David Finkle 2010

  • It was a dreary, high-ceiled, four-square place, with a window looking out into Chestnut Street, and a second door leading off into somewhere — one had no idea where.

    The Financier 2004

  • Zanders led the way through a dark, somber hall, wide and high-ceiled, to a farther gate, where a second gateman, trifling with a large key, unlocked a barred door at his bidding.

    The Financier 2004

  • He wandered through the high-ceiled rooms, his boots making splotchy tracks in the fine dust crisscrossed with the spoor of small animals.

    Daybreak 2250 AD Norton, Andre 1952

  • She sat in a high-ceiled, white-walled room with French windows opening on a terrace where _olea fragans_ blossoms expanded round the base of a statue by Canova.

    Sacrifice Stephen French Whitman

  • Her hostess passed under an elaborate archway, and Arlee followed slowly, passing through one stately, high-ceiled, dusty room into another, plunged again into the twilight of densely screening

    The Palace of Darkened Windows Mary Hastings Bradley

  • Josiah's private room in the factory office building had been an impressive one, high-ceiled and flanked with a fire-place which was, however, never lighted.

    Mary Minds Her Business George Weston

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