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  2. Narcissa Niblack Thorne - Wikipedia

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    Narcissa Niblack Thorne (May 2, 1882 – June 25, 1966) was an American artist known for her extremely detailed miniature rooms. Her works depict historical interiors from Europe, Asia and North America from the late 13th to the early 20th century.

  3. Hunter Cole - Wikipedia

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    Hunter Cole has created several photographic series that incorporate the medium of bioluminescent bacteria. Entitled, Living Light: Photographs by the Light of Bioluminescent Bacteria, the series include Living Drawings, Bioluminescent Portraits and Installations, Bioluminescent Weddings, and Bioluminescent Nudes, each its own thematic grouping of images which will be shown in a solo ...

  4. Thorne miniature rooms - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] The Art Institute of Chicago's rooms are among the museum's most popular permanent collections. [5] The Knoxville Museum of Art is home to 9 of the remaining rooms, while The Children's Museum of Indianapolis and the Kaye Miniature Museum in Los Angeles have one each. [1] Some of the Thorne rooms are miniature replicas of actual rooms. [1]

  5. Editorial: Why Chicago’s Signature Room mattered - AOL

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    The last time one of us from the board was in the Signature Room in the iconic skyscraper formerly known as the John Hancock Center, the food was mediocre, the check eye-watering, and the fees and ...

  6. McCormick Tribune Campus Center - Wikipedia

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    He worked with Chicago architecture firm Holabird & Root, especially on structural engineering issues. The site was previously a heavily used student parking lot with tracks of the Green Line passing overhead. Koolhaas tracked movements of students across the lot, which led to diagonal passageways as the center's interior thoroughfares.

  7. How to Design a Drawing Room for Entertaining Guests at Home

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    The earliest known use of the noun drawing room is in the mid-1600s, with the earliest evidence of drawing room appearing in 1635, from a Victorian-era memoir titled Steward's Household Accounts.

  8. Drawing room - Wikipedia

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    A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained, and an alternative name for a living room. The name is derived from the 16th-century terms withdrawing room and withdrawing chamber , which remained in use through the 17th century, and made their first written appearance in 1642. [ 1 ]

  9. Rock Island Rockets - Wikipedia

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    32 seat, 1 drawing room, parlor, buffet, observation car #450 Peoria; The Des Moines Rocket, Chicago, Illinois to Des Moines, Iowa. Articulated 3 car set: 32 seat Baggage-dinette-coach #401 Norman Judd; 60 seat coach #307 Grenville Dodge; 76 seat coach #301 Henry Farnum; 32 seat, 1 drawing room, parlor, buffet, observation car #451 L M Allen ...