Article: Room service, send up 10,000 crackers Cheese-packed N.Y. hotel room is man's pungent `installation art'

Cosimo Cavallaro has created a Muenster.

It's a room the Swiss Family Robinson could call home, a place as Gouda as it gets.

It's a hotel room covered in 1,000 pounds of melted cheese a mixture of shredded Gruyere, Swiss and other varieties. In Room 114 of the Washington Jefferson Hotel, cheese drips from a ceiling fan. It is draped over chairs and the television. It blankets two beds and hangs from the overhead light in long strands reaching the floor. It covers an ashtray and two glasses. It is spread over the walls and the carpet. It nearly covers the blinking red message light of the bedside telephone. The place smells something like a New York apartment would if a party spread ...

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