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Simon's work, like Wright's, is at once grand and rugged, not unlike the high mesas themselves. In the dining room, he has followed Wright's imperative, in a landscape of such majesty, of creating an interior that echoes the outside, that seemingly incorporates its territorial elements and artifacts. On the wall is a huge seven- panel screen of eglomise of mountains, golden, almost molten—a dramatic abstract reenactment of the actual view opposite the dining room. To one side are shadow boxes containing precious vessels from the clients' extensive collection of 1st century Palestinian ceramics. The furniture, all designed by Michael Simon, is plain, robust yet elegant, the table, a Parsons table writ large, of limed wood; the chairs of rose-red leather studded with brass. "To stand the test of time and become classic interiors must acknowledge the past," is Simon's credo, realized by him in a long series of palatial projects dealing, at the highest level of connoisseurship, with important pieces of furniture from the Renaissance through the 19th century. The genius of his Arizona project HYLAND