Re: flight of rooms

On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:43:44 -0000, msb@xxxxxxx (Mark Brader) wrote:

>Stephen Calder, among others, writes:
>> Flight is misused. I would use "suite".
>
>I don't think that conveys the impression of a linear sequence, which
>seems to be what we're talking about here.  I'd say "series" or
>"sequence".

Agreed. To me "suite" suggests a cluster of rooms which do not
necessarily form a sequence.

Thinking of a word roughly synonymous with "sequence" I thought of
"chain".

Google found 435 instances of "chain of rooms". The phrase appears to be
used to mean precisely what is meant by "Raumflucht".

http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/goback.html
    Going upstairs we first visited the blue and gold church situated
    in the left wing of the palace and then passed through the
    seemingly endless chain of rooms that runs through the entire
    length of the building. Blue rooms, white rooms, yellow, green
    and red, halls for the nobility, halls for the Guardsmen, halls
    for the diplomats, they stretched ahead of us, gorgeous, gilded,
    cold, uncomfortable.

http://www.cracow-life.com/krakow/where_is_culture/culture_details/666-Ethnographic_Museum
    One of the least visited museums in Cracow also happens to be
    one of the most delightful. You'll find this cracker in the former
    Town Hall that dominates Plac Wolnica in Kazimierz. On the ground
    floor there is a chain of rooms, each one an authentic reproduction
    of a folk interior from different regions of Poland.

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2001-03-20/restreview.html
    [From a review of a restaurant in New Orleans -- in 2001]
    For months, I wanted to believe that the nearly windowless warehouse
    space contained some sort of savory perfumery instead of a
    restaurant. Then came my first excursion through Irene's Cuisine's
    chain of rooms, which disclosed a scene as fantastical as those
    smells.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3575/is_1305_218/ai_n15891658
    [The Akademie der Kunste in Berlin]
    To maintain historical continuity and memory of the institution
    it was desirable to keep at least some of these exhibition rooms,
    and now that art often consists of installations and performances
    rather than painting, artists seem to prefer a dialogue with an
    existing place rather than being framed inescapably by the white
    room of the architect. But retention of the old chain of rooms was
    not easy. Taking more than half the length of the site, they ran
    down the middle, and their roof lights required void overhead.

http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/acogan/aczacatecas.html
    [Rafael Coronel Museum, Zacatecas, Mexico]
    A collection of 4,500 Mexican masks is the centerpiece of the
    Rafael Coronel Museum. Rafael was the younger brother of
    Pedro Coronel. A long chain of rooms contain the displays of
    exotic and colorful masks.
-- 
Peter Duncanson
UK (posting from a.u.e)
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