Shoji screens and other decorative elements help tame unruly audio.
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Form and Function
Lighting is Key
  
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Lighting is Key

Several lighting scenes, like MOVIE and INTERMISSION, were programmed into the remote so that one button press adjusts the levels of all of the lights, or the owners can dim and brighten each group of lights individually—brightening the lights in the columns flanking the screen, dimming the fixtures in the ceiling and activating the lights behind the shoji screens for a party, for example.

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